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vjktyu
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vjktyu
7y ago
The lower boundary of the 99 percentile goes up as 1/sqrt(N) and approaches the average member intelligence, but never reaches that level. At the same time, the upper boundary of the 99 percentile goes down at the same speed. However t
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I think there is some math behind that statement. The average IQ of a crowd remains the same when the crowd grows, but the variance of that IQ, or more precise, the standard deviation, is stddev(crowd) = stddev(person) / sqrt(N). This