Quote of the day:

[conuly]

Jesus, the average human IQ is only 100?

IQ tests are specially designed so that whatever the average is, it's marked as 100. It's graded on a curve. So if you took a room full of MENSA candidates and ONLY measured them (let's say the rest of the human population had been killed off), the average IQ there would be 100. And the same applies to if it were a room full of people with Downs syndrome.

Seriously, doesn't everyone learn that?

Comments

[dandelion.livejournal.com]

I hate IQ tests, because they actually don't mean a thing. So big deal, I did one aged ten and did very well(to get into Mensa, and I did well enough to, but I couldn't be bothered to go to an official monitored one and never pursued it)- it's weighted so that it's easier on ten year olds. Why should someone be given a higher IQ just for being younger?