One of the big issues with IQ discussions is that you end up taking the public’s struggle with statistics which is already terrible even when they’re trying and then add on a whole bunch of bad faith intention and discourse on top.
Like this is just anecdotal but the amount of people I’ve seen in this and similar discussion seemingly unable to recognize that averages aren’t necessarily that meaningful to any individual experience is crazy. A group with an average of 95 IQ is still going to have lots of individuals within it that are over >100! If you take a random person from average 95 IQ group and a random person from average 100 IQ group, there’s a not that far from equal chance that the former person is higher than the latter! Less than the 50⁄50, but it’s close. “Less than a coin flip” is not equivalent to rare.
One of the big issues with IQ discussions is that you end up taking the public’s struggle with statistics which is already terrible even when they’re trying and then add on a whole bunch of bad faith intention and discourse on top.
Like this is just anecdotal but the amount of people I’ve seen in this and similar discussion seemingly unable to recognize that averages aren’t necessarily that meaningful to any individual experience is crazy. A group with an average of 95 IQ is still going to have lots of individuals within it that are over >100! If you take a random person from average 95 IQ group and a random person from average 100 IQ group, there’s a not that far from equal chance that the former person is higher than the latter! Less than the 50⁄50, but it’s close. “Less than a coin flip” is not equivalent to rare.