The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...

Justices to consider how to determine if a person is "intellectually disabled." More than 20 years ago, the Supreme Court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled people convicted of capital ...

The intelligence quotient (IQ) is a standardized measure of cognition, or your ability to think, understand, reason, learn, and remember. By design, the average IQ score is 100. Higher IQ scores are ...

While many people praise a person’s intelligence and craft high IQs as inherently superior, there are a number of skills that low-IQ people and performers do incredibly well, from creativity to ...

Smarter people don’t just crunch numbers better—they actually see the future more clearly. Examining thousands of over-50s, Bath researchers found the brightest minds made life-expectancy forecasts ...

Who has the highest IQ in history? One answer would be: a 10-year-old girl from Missouri. In 1956, according to lore, she took a version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test and recorded a mental age of 22 ...

The College Board—the standardized testing behemoth that develops and administers the SAT and other tests—has redesigned its flagship product again. Beginning in spring 2016, the writing section will ...

Intelligence quotient, usually shortened to IQ, is a measure of how well someone uses information, logic, and reasoning compared to their peers. The first test for measuring IQ was developed by ...

A rumor circulating online as a screenshot of a Reddit post claimed U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris received a score of 78 on an IQ test while attending Howard University. The assessment platform ...

Sure, New Jersey is full of wise guys. But just how smart are we? A study by Data Pandas, a data accessibility website, aimed to find out by ranking each state in America by IQ. "The Human ...

A new map showcases which U.S. states have the highest IQ, offering insight into the intellectual landscape of the nation and the socio-economic factors that play a role in determining intelligence.