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To: OneWingedShark

“>Obama Sr ?? Look up the Average IQ of Kenya for starters then one can understand this Communist lover.

By definition, for large populations the average IQ *should* be 100.”

LOL it is 72


132 posted on 09/09/2010 11:19:12 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Cheetahcat

>>>Obama Sr ?? Look up the Average IQ of Kenya for starters then one can understand this Communist lover.
>>
>>By definition, for large populations the average IQ *should* be 100.
>
>LOL it is 72

That’s somewhat unexpected.
A standard deviation in IQ, IIRC, is 15... so anything in 85..115 would be unsurprising in an individual, but that range narrows the larger of a subsample you take.

To have a NATIONAL avg IQ of 72 is probabilistically vanishingly small. (A mode of 72, which states only that ‘72’ is the most common repeated value would be surprising, but much less so than avg IQ.)

There are two things that I would be concerned about in the validity here:
1 - The educated v uneducated impact on IQ; technically speaking education/lack-thereof should have a minimum impact on the actual IQ.
and
2 - Averages describe the extreme cases more than the “most often encountered”-case {as an example imagine a town of 100 people where 99 make $1/hr and one makes $500/hr... the average wage is $5.99/hr which is near six times what most are making.}


134 posted on 09/09/2010 11:31:59 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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