08-18-2007, 01:36 PM
Minoshia Wrote:The test only gives you how intelligent you are in relation to people who took the same test. There can be no test that you can take and be declared "genius", but only a genius in comparison to the other people who took it.
Obviously, Minoshia, but the "official", standardized tests use a sample of the population in order to form the relative scale of an IQ test, and scale the test to a bell curve with 100 (the average) featuring dead center. Thus, as long as the scientists (or whatever you want to call them) who make the IQ test get the population sample statistically correct (and I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt over, say, you), the relative scale is quite sound.
Further, I vote that Retane's score of 53 is justified, and reinforced by many instances throughout the Chubbs post history.

