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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:14:30 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> Well, yes, his point is correct in this case because he's crafted a
>> small sample size that actually does bear out his assertion.
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> My point was that people tend to think that "the average IQ is 100"
> automatically implies that half of the people will be below that and the
> other half above it. That's obviously not the case. It depends on the
> actual distribution of the samples (iow. if the distribution is
> asymmetric around the average, then less than half of people will be on
> one side and the rest on the other).
>
> It just sounded like this misconception was being touted in this
> thread.
Oh, I see what you're saying - the distribution is actually more like 50%
of people fall into a range of 91-110 (if I remember correctly).
Jim
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