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by ben_w 3112 days ago
IQ is defined to be a normal distribution. Intelligence, on the other hand, isn’t.

This is one of the problems with IQ as a measure of intelligence. IQ 150 doesn’t mean doing mental arithmetic faster than IQ 100 by the same margin that IQ 100 beats IQ 50, only that IQ>150 is as rare as IQ<50.