• Reliant1087@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m not talking about the normal distribution being valid at some value. Since it’s a continuous decaying function in either direction, it’ll be kosher at any real number. I’m talking about the hypothesis that IQ will be normally distributed not holding at that far deviations.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, you mean that someone with an IQ of 100 is twice as smart as one with an IQ of 50 doesn’t hold with low numbers like 5 and 10 anymore? That doesn’t work in any case since IQ is just defined that way and it would be very difficult for such a scale to actually work. Probably impossible because there are a lot of aspects to intelligence, it isn’t one-dimensional.