Re: Ethics, IQ

From: Phil Goetz (philgoetz@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 21:41:07 MST


--- Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com> wrote:

> At 09:45 AM 07/02/05 -0800, Phil wrote:

> >IQ is defined to have a standard deviation of 10.
>
> Sorry, the consensus from putting standard deviation
> IQ in Google is 15 points.

Oops. Well, the Wechsler scale refers to an IQ test
scale
in which the mean is set at 100 and the stand. dev.
at 15. But the mean IQ score in the US is now about
110, so I guess we're not using the Wechsler scale
anymore?

- Phil

                
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