Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47

• acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Considering intelligence/stupidity isn’t defined, it’s a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t totally disagree, I’ve never seen an actual distribution of random iq scores

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And there’s plenty of criticism of IQ tests as a proxy for intelligence, even if we did have the data.

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