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Mental Retardation

The former term for intellectual disability, now considered offensive and clinically imprecise.

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Jan 26, 2026
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What IQ is considered retarded

The clinical threshold historically tied to the derogatory word “retarded” has been an IQ roughly two standard deviations below the population mean—about an IQ of 70 (sometimes cited as 70–75)—but mod...

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