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To: Age of Reason; stands2reason
The optimal IQ is the average IQ, 100.

No, that is the median, mode, and average IQ assuming a normal distribution. If average IQ were the optimal IQ, why did the average IQ of our ancestors rise over time? Natural selection caused the mean to rise over generations. I think this implies that an IQ above the mean is optimal.

366 posted on 06/15/2003 10:50:58 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
If average IQ were the optimal IQ, why did the average IQ of our ancestors rise over time? Natural selection caused the mean to rise over generations.

Your source for this data?

414 posted on 06/16/2003 9:26:21 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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