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Is this a joke? Yes, by definition an IQ test is normalized to 100 for the population it's targeted for. But that doesn't mean that you can't compare intelligen
by legalcorrection 5y ago
Is this a joke? Yes, by definition an IQ test is normalized to 100 for the population it's targeted for. But that doesn't mean that you can't compare intelligence across different populations, by not doing that normalization.
- jacquesm 5y agoAverage IQ will always be 100, but 100 today is not the same as 100 50 years ago. Renormalization is about 3 points per decade, so you have to take that into account when you compare IQ results across longer time spans. So a person that would have scored '100' on an IQ test 50 years ago would be expected to score about 85 on a test administered today. Note that I'm not a fan of collapsing everything about human intelligence to a single number, but if you are going to use that number then you at least should be aware of how it is defined and how it develops over time.
- bpodgursky 5y agoRedefining what 100 IQ means is a distraction (which feels like a malicious distraction) from the actual topic here.