Brad Beyenhof wrote:
On 5/12/08, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin  quoting John Oliver as of Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:44:09AM -0700:

 > Remember, half of all people are under 100 IQ points.

Is 100 IQ the median? I thought it was the mean.

Yes; it's got a median of 100 and a standard deviation of ~15 (it's
different on each system of IQ testing).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

For normal distributions and large enough populations, mean == median.

-a


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