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IQs can't be higher. The tests are designed to be normally distributed with an average of 100.
by SixSigma 10y ago
IQs can't be higher. The tests are designed to be normally distributed with an average of 100.
- Dylan16807 10y agoI was hoping nobody was going to make this obnoxious comment, but to see it being the only comment? What do you think you're contributing?
- SixSigma 10y agoI shall obnoxiously answer a question with a question : What do you think you're contributing?
- Dylan16807 10y agoI'm not under the illusion that I'm contributing by calling a terrible post terrible. I just didn't want to stand idly by while you make such a pedantic and misleading non-correction.
- ievahanordah 10y agoI'm continuing your argument by replying to you.
- sctb 10y agoThe thing to do is to respond civilly by presenting your disagreement as informatively as possible, so that we all have a chance to learn from it.
- Dylan16807 10y agoThe explanation of the Flynn effect linked in the article is just fine. So I don't help teach by explaining. I almost explained anyway, but that would have detracted from my core message, that the initial comment was anti-understanding for the sake of pedantry points. In the future I'll add an explanation and be less snarky. But do understand this was not me being bad at disagreeing. Disagreeing was not the reason I posted.
- ideonexus 10y agoThis statement is true, but a bit misleading. Yes, IQ tests are constantly being adjusted so that the mean is always 100, but the average person today will score above 100 on an IQ test from a decade or more ago. This is what the article is referring to when it asserts "Our IQs have never been higher." It is a factual statement and the basis for the "Flynn Effect," which has tracked our steady increase in average IQ for many decades now [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect