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gattilorenz on Dec 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gopher – A 280B parameter language model

> 70 % of people have less 100 iq

Being pedantic here, but isn't that more like ~50%, by definition? Or did I misunderstand how IQ works?

aix1 on Dec 9, 2021 [–]

You're exactly right: by construction, IQ scores are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.

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