Please estimate how many people would have to be in a group of adults, chosen uniformly at random, for you to expect the group to contain one (and only one) person smarter than you.
That depends a lot on the group of adults you use as reference. World population? The population of the country in which you are living? City? Your facebook friends?
I think IQ is much better because there are objective standards. “Smart” is also a word that different people interpret slightly differently. IQ is much more precise.
That depends a lot on the group of adults you use as reference. World population? The population of the country in which you are living? City? Your facebook friends?
I think IQ is much better because there are objective standards. “Smart” is also a word that different people interpret slightly differently. IQ is much more precise.
Ideally, ethnic Brits, since I believe that’s what’s typically done for IQ reference distributions.
Yes, but people may be better at imagining groups than normal distributions. Just how much unlikelier is 150 than 145?
That would also be interesting to test. Ask both for the IQ and ask for the relative intelligence.
Do well calibrated people perform better on this task?