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by scotty79 2005 days ago
So it's just artifact of testing.

Lowest test scores come from low ability plus bad luck and as such are lower than just low ability and highest test scores come from high ability and great luck and as such are higher than just high ability.

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Easily verified by testing more. (Via law of big numbers.)

Unless the test is biased which means we're back to square one - discerning bias of the test from bias of respondent.

To do that you'd have to produce a specifically biased test in a different way, see how the noises add.