Larry Blanchard wrote: : In article , snipped-for-privacy@gwis.com says... :> :> How many people have a "below average" IQ in a population :> of 99 people with an IQ of 100 and :> 1 person with an IQ of 110? :> : Since IQ follows a normal curve with no skew (mean, median, and mode the : same), you'd have a heckof a time finding such a group unless you tested : and picked them deliberately :-).
Actually, IQ scores rise over time (the Flynn Effect), so the tests get renormed every 15 years. See:
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a result, a person could score significantly higher in one year than the next, if the renorming occurred in between. So, in principle, you can find a group of people who, on average, have higher-than-average IQ scores.
: And the "half under average" is the reason I shudder as all the : production line jobs get shipped overseas. How stable can a society be : when many workers in that half can't find jobs that pay enough to feed a : family?
Agreed.
- Andy Barss