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Anatoly Karlin's avatar

> The creator of the dataset says as much and currently employs a policy of setting the absolute minimum of IQ estimates to 60.

This doesn't seem to be defensible. Implausible sure but how can you justify fiddling with raw data this way?

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Graham Seibert's avatar

People with IQs of 60 are usually within institutions, certainly within special ed in the US. When you deal with them you know they are dumb.

Traveling to Nicaragua and Nepal, working with the people, I experience them as normal. Shopkeepers could do arithmetic - this was in the days before calculators were ubiquitous. They managed to run small businesses.

This was even true, though to a lesser degree, than Haiti. You are right to question the administration and even the meaning of the tests.

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