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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6846271" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>I'm beginning to think you're not reading my posts you're responding to. My argument has nothing to do with how smart a person with a particular IQ is compared to another person with some other IQ. It has nothing to do with the mean of 100 being an accurate measure of average intelligence. My argument is only about how rare a particular IQ score is. IQ tests are purposely constructed in such a way that the results will conform to the 3-sigma rule; 68% of people will have an IQ between 85 and 115, 95% of people will have an IQ between 70 and 130, and 99.7% of people will have an IQ between 55 and 145. You can see from this that IQ isn't so much a measure of how smart you are but of how rare a certain test result is. An IQ of 180 (if it was even a valid result) is exceedingly rare, much more rare than a result of 18 on a 3d6.</p></blockquote><p></p>