Swingman wrote:

I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly
half the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she
responded that I didn't factor in that many of them might be
concentrated in one area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.

Believe it or not, most of the people she deals with are above the average
IQ. Here's why.

1. Almost all women have average IQs (90-110), yielding an average of 100.
Theirs is not a bell curve so much as a horizontal line.
2. Men are pretty evenly distributed between 50 and 150, again yielding an
average of 100. Men's intelligence curve is also pretty much a straight line
but instead of horizontal, it's diagonal. Now very many of men below, say,
80 are locked up somewhere, so the one's she runs into are in the range of
80-150, or an average of 120 or so, significantly above average.

An interesting consequence of the above is that your average man (on the
street) is smarter than your average woman.