On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:58:06 -0400, Warp wrote:


>   If the curve of people's intelligence is not linear, it can mean that
> the majority of people are actually below average than above it (or the
> other way around, of course, depending on the sign of the derivative of
> the curve).

For a large statistical sample, IIRC, it's basically a bell curve.

>   As a simple example, if we have 4 people with IQs 90, 90, 90 and 130,
> the average will be 100, but the majority of these people is below
> average. In other words, three quarters of the people are "stupid" and
> one quarter is "smart".

Except that when measuring "average" intelligence, your sample size is a 
population, not a small discrete number.

Jim

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