| ▲ | cjbgkagh 3 days ago |
| The average IQ of a prisoner is 90-95 which is a long way from 100. |
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| ▲ | Enginerrrd 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Prison IQ is a very different distribution. As I recall, the top 2% IQ of the general population makes up something like 20% of the prison population. You also have quite a few at the other end. The gifted are more over represented in prison then black males, however, most of those gifted are themselves minorities. |
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| ▲ | cjbgkagh 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I’ll have to see some evidence on that, in my search it’s basically a normal bell curve shifted 8 pts down. The idea that 130+ IQ individuals make up 1/5th of the prison population does not pass the sniff test, that would be a crazy statistical aberration. In my search I found reports that 130+ IQ individuals only represent less than 0.4% of the prison population. |
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| ▲ | LAC-Tech 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Is the average IQ of the US still 100? |
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| ▲ | red-iron-pine 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | isn't the point that 100 is roughly the average? or 100 at the year they made the test, anyway. | |
| ▲ | cjbgkagh 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Roughly yes, it is declining. The Flynn effect was just smart people having kids later which has now normalized and reversed (with smart people having fewer kids). | |
| ▲ | throwawaymobule 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Isn't it always 100, by definition? | | |
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