• DarkGamer@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      The median and the mean are usually pretty close when we’re talking about IQ. It’s not like money where a few rich people can throw off the average, as no one has billions of IQ points.

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        9 months ago

        What I said is statistically correct. IQ is a normalized measurement where median and mean are a score of 100 and the average is within 1 SD of 100. (The SD for IQ is 15.) This means that fewer than half will have below-average intelligence when measured using IQ because the lowest value for average is below the median.

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      9 months ago

      The irony is someone always points out this rhetorical comedic statement about society and intellegence is not rigorously correct…