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[–] soul@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, that's not how averages work.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] soul@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.