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Re:Security Weaknesses of Copilot Generated Code in GitHub by oblio on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:18AM (#37776800)
> So in one usage someone who is kinda dumb would still be intelligent, just less intelligent than others.

100 IQ = 50% of the population is smarter than this.

80 IQ = not sure what the percentage is, but >50% of the population is smarter than this.

If any of the tables here are to be believed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification#Historical_I...

then 80 IQ could mean 80% of the population is smarter.

I'll rephrase my "kinda dumb" to "dumb as rocks".

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Re:Security Weaknesses of Copilot Generated Code in GitHub by billyjmc on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:19AM (#37778230)
From the main Wiki entry on IQ tests: “The raw score of the norming sample is usually (rank order) transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15.”

So, you’re not too far off numerically. 80 IQ is only a -1.33 Z-score. So, 9th percentile. 91% of people score higher than 80 IQ.

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