TOP 2 IQ Percentile Re: [extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour?

Brett Paatsch bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au
Mon Nov 21 19:16:05 UTC 2005


Damien Broderick wrote:


> It's hard for us self-starter INTJs to grasp that hapless dynamic,
> but then we're less than 5% of the population, and most of us here
> are a slimmer slice through that group as well, being at least in the
> top 2 IQ percentiles.

I wish it were so but I reckon this flatters or genuinely overrates
"most of us here" by about a standard deviation.  

I'd estimate the mid-point of the curve as closer to one standard 
deviation above the mean than two.

Brett Paatsch






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