• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Above average that has to count for something right? … Until you remember that the literacy rate is only slightly higher than that and the average person is a substance farmer, you just better be proud of selection bias.

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        9 days ago

        Listen man, I just do what the autocorrect tells me to do, if you have an issue take it up with the boss.

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      9 days ago

      Above average that has to count for something right?

      Well they aren’t though, 345/1000 people having a worse score than you means there are 654/1000 people who have a better score.

      “IQ 100” is a moving target that gets regularly updated to the new average (which relatively speaking has been mostly climbing for decades).

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          9 days ago

          Well yeah kind of, except for the caveat that there are some things in those tests a website can’t really check. The tests are standardised and publicly available. There isn’t really any reason to not implement a (half-way) proper test, even if you are just harvesting data.