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Re:After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as ... by wahern on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:17PM (#35063409)
The comment uses a definition of average as scores within one standard deviation of the mean. (The comment also uses average as the mean score, 100, which makes it confusing--two meanings of average. NB: Mean is also median in normal distributions.)
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Re:After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as ... by wizofaus on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:36PM (#35064909)
I suppose it's the redefinition of average to include IQs up to "115" that I'd say was the issue then...
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Re:After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as ... by wahern on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:58PM (#35065448)
TIL that apparently both Stanford-Binet and Wechsler have classification systems which both define "average" as 90-109. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%E2%80%93Binet_Intelli... (the latter includes the latest scale for Standford-Binet)

Google provides many hits of people using average to mean within one standard deviation, or 85-115, but in a few minutes of searching I couldn't figure out a proper authority for that.

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