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minus-squaresplendid9583@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoIt seems that IQ tests are always used with a normal distribution. For modern IQ tests, the raw score is transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. I don’t know whether IQ/intelligence is actually normally distributed, but it seems that IQ test results are. To find a graph that better matches what you described, you might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_function and/or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness
It seems that IQ tests are always used with a normal distribution.
I don’t know whether IQ/intelligence is actually normally distributed, but it seems that IQ test results are.
To find a graph that better matches what you described, you might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_function and/or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness