On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:59:01 +0300, Phil Carmody
<thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Alan LeHun <try@reply.to> writes:
>> In article <ELednQ5sOc7MG4nVRVnyvQA@plusnet>, "Depresion" <127.0.0.1>
>> says...
>>> >>If the rest of the world were half as smart as my ass it would bring up the
>>> >>average IQ substantially.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > the average IQ cannot be changed
>>>
>>> Yes it can. Watch as it goes up as you enter my killfile.
>>>
>>
>> lol. It's a quotient. The average IQ, by definition, is 100. 100 is and
>> always will be the average IQ. There will not be an average IQ other
>> than 100. An IQ other than 100 is not average. I don't know how else to
>> explain it to you.
>>
>> rofl. foot. mouth. contact.
>
>That's not how it works at all, alas. Standardised IQs are
>renormalised occasionally in order to return them to mu=100
>sigma=15, but only after drift has been quantified. Google
>"Flynn effect". And, as IQs are monotonically drifting in
>almost every demographic, have been for decades, and probably
>will for decades more, you can be pretty sure that the
>majority of the time, the mean IQ is not 100.
>
>You also seemed to have completely overlooked the fact that
>in his previous comment he was referring specifically to the
>IQ of a sample of the population, not the general populution.
>It's perfectly possible for the IQ of a non-randomly
>selected subset of the population to deviate significantly
>from the IQ of the general population. Do you think that
>the average IQ of Cambridge University students, say, is
>100?
>
I'm pretty sure he mentioned "world" then "IQ average" in the same
sentence. Do note how you say above "average IQ".
ie: This group's average IQ is based on the currently perceived IQ
average. Which, as you say, has probably changed by the time i posted
this.
And not *because* i posted this, unless you want a bloody nose. ;-)
Just a play on words of course and it should've been but a giggle on
all sides instead of making a proverbial fucking mountain out of it.
Fair dinkum, sometimes i wonder if you guys have hormonal disturbances
during your periods...
--
Regards, Frank