Psychometrics

The term means “the measurement of the mind” and is intimately connected with mental testing.

Psychometric tests, of which IQ tests are an important example, produce scores which are interpreted as measures of mental characteristics. Though IQ tests provide only a measure of how good people are at solving certain kinds of problems under certain types of test conditions, the results of such testing have been extended in interpretation, controversially, to measure a more fundamental mental ability.

(see also: psychological, projective tests, actuarial prediction)

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