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[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: silverpig
That list is complete BS. IQ is a gaussian with mean 100 by definition. The mean of that curve is nowhere near 100. If you weighed the countries by population and produced a graph, you should still get something that's close to a normal curve. You calculate the mean of this curve, and you define that to be 100. Everything else is based relative to that one mark.

You are forgetting that the IQ tests were developed in England, and it set *their* population's average IQ as the average of 100.

With this knowledge, you should see that England scores 100.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Mark R
Umm. How do those statistics work?

The average IQ is, by definition, 100 for each population group - that means each indiviudal country and/or culture.

No, it means that when the test was developed, the average (in the place which it was developed) was set at 100. After it's set, you use the same test on everyone. It's possible for some countries to score above or below the average number of 100 set by the people who developed the test.

England will score around 100, but other countries will score differently.