Lagrange 4
28-12-2004, 09:21
The "Smartest Citizens" UN survey is up again, and I was pleased to see that my nation had gone up significantly in rank. They're now in the highest 99.7 centile. I looked it up in an online translation table (http://members.chello.nl/p.cooijmans/gliaweb/stats/iq_perc.html) and noticed that it corresponds to an IQ of 141, which translates to intellectually gifted.
Since "IQ scores" are a popularly recognised way to describe intelligence, translate your rank to an IQ score and post it here.
Of course, this score doesn't mean that the average L4 citizen, for example, is a genius. This score only tells how you compare to other countries by a random sample of your society.
Also, according to the great naturalist Stephen Jay Gould, IQ testing is...
...the abstraction of intelligence as a single entity, its location within the brain, its quantification as one number for each individual, and the use of these numbers to rank people in a single series of worthiness, invariably to find that oppressed and disadvantaged groups—races, classes, or sexes—are innately inferior and deserve their status.
Since "IQ scores" are a popularly recognised way to describe intelligence, translate your rank to an IQ score and post it here.
Of course, this score doesn't mean that the average L4 citizen, for example, is a genius. This score only tells how you compare to other countries by a random sample of your society.
Also, according to the great naturalist Stephen Jay Gould, IQ testing is...
...the abstraction of intelligence as a single entity, its location within the brain, its quantification as one number for each individual, and the use of these numbers to rank people in a single series of worthiness, invariably to find that oppressed and disadvantaged groups—races, classes, or sexes—are innately inferior and deserve their status.