On 1/8/2010 10:36 AM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:20:35 -0600, HeyBub wrote:

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.

Interesting, if true. I did a Google and every reference I could find
says it's a bell curve. Would you please cite a reference supporting the
straight line hypothesis. I'd like to read it.

Most IQ tests indeed rank results in a Gaussian Bell Curve with a
standard deviation, depending on the test.

As with the maxim that "statistics lie and liars use statistics ..." you
can certainly massage the rankings, by grouping the results by
ethnicity, nationality, and other creative ways, ad infinitum to prove a
point/agendize.

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