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Originally posted by mudman
Just to be clear, if I'm in a room with 39 other people, my IQ is 150 and they are all 70, the average IQ is 72, they are all below average.
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Yes, it wasn't mathematically accurate (I should have said that the 50% were the mode), but I stand by my statement. I believe 75% of the population falls between 85 and 115 (think bell curve), so I was thinking more along the lines of probability.
Chances are high that if half of the people in the room seem to have a similar level of intelligence and that level seems low that they are probably average and you are above average.
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