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There are many ways of knowing the means objectively. In countries with mandatory military service and where IQ tests are administered in connection wit that se
by impossiblefork 4y ago
There are many ways of knowing the means objectively. In countries with mandatory military service and where IQ tests are administered in connection wit that service there is reliable data.
Another source is the number of clinical cases of mild mental retardation. This will mostly depend on how large the population subgroups with lowest IQ are, but if they are approximately fixed and there's no explosion in assortative mating it would be possible to calculate the true mean from that.
- aoeusnth1 4y ago> Another source is the number of clinical cases of mild mental retardation. This assumes both classification criteria and testing rates remain constant over time. Both are poor assumptions.
- impossiblefork 4y agoMaybe, but the first one is certainly a good source.