your right, i actually already new that such was likely mode… yet it still seems that it is suggestive of the average in the sense as when one says a person of average IQ as that says the person is of the intelligence zone of the larger population…
IQ has a numerical value. That’s why I asked you if you were assigning number values to races. You can’t really calculate an average without numbers.
True… i guess i was techniqly using a differnt definition of average… one commonly used perhaps but not “apropriate” as when a person might say the average joe in america is white…when really they should say the majority or modal person is white…
this got me thinking though…is it not possible that the average IQ may be 100 but that most people are of a higher IQ then that… or perhaps lower… I wonder what the mode of IQ is in the world…
Yes, that’s possible. Easily.
Take this set of numbers:
101, 102, 97
The average of this set of numbers is 100, but more values are above 100 than below it.
Well I guess I knew it was possible… It seems though that if that is the case it would be quite relivant… a person thinking they are smart because they have an IQ of say 120 when that is what most people have…
I tried searching for mode of IQ in America and such and could not find that…
120? Nah, that’s too far from 100 for it to be what most people have. Most modern IQ tests are set up to have a standard deviation of 15. A person who truthfully has an IQ of 120 is a full 1 and 1/3 standard deviation above average. A person with an IQ of 120 is in around the top 10% of people.
IQ tests aren’t great at testing intelligence, they were set up to spot people who would do badly in the modern education system. A person of 120 IQ may well be in the top 10% of people, but frankly intelligence wise they are not. Doesn’t test creativity, does not test the most important things that intelligence brings, the ability to solve a problem by having the ability to think around them. Intelligent people can make abstractions and find conjectures that no person who just has the IQ test skills would ever be able to do.
Plus IQ tests are time restricted… you can ask one person with a high IQ score real high on maths but that person not able to figure out something like calculus on their own… then you can have somebody else who has a lower IQ that figures out parts of math or calculus willy nilly…but then can’t remember the formulas well… most intelligence tests now adays and especially ACt scores and such test for memorization rather then creativity which is what most great inventors were…
I’m not here to justify the accuracy of the IQ test, just telling him the mathematical properties of the way it was set up. I completely agree that the IQ tests are biased in a number of ways.
As long as it includes my ethnicity, i.e. Bicol, that will do. 