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Even though more than 2.3 percent of the population has IQs below 70, only about 1 percent of people are diagnosed as having intellectual disability at any one point in time. Explain this discrepancy.
 
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Describe the controversy around the issue of whether IQ tests are culture-fair.
 
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Answer to Question 1

Many young children with intellectual disability are not identified as such because it is difficult to obtain a reliable IQ score from people this age. Also, many adults who have IQs under 70 function adaptively, and therefore, they are not considered as having an intellectual disability.

Answer to Question 2

On average, the IQ scores of African Americans and Latino Americans are lower than those of Caucasians and Asian Americans, and the rates of intellectual disability are also higher in these former groups. Some of these differences have been attributed to bias in the composition of intelligence tests, which may be geared toward the majority group.



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