The IQ of Nazis

The IQ of Nazis

Ned's QOD on the IQ of Nazis at the Nuremberg trials is disturbing. (128). I am not sure what the IQ test measures but there are certainly differences of a sort. I've always thought the importance was in the volume of numbers.

The world--and this country--seem to have trouble understanding the turmoil of modern politics. That stems from an under-appreciation of the basic demographics; there are some people, and those numbers are larger than people think, who simply are not going to be able to care for themselves in a modern, non-agricultural world. There are some people who are not going to be able to make good decisions--malice aside. Every single individual on the good side of the norm will have an equal, reciprocal negative reflection on the other side of the norm. For every individual two inches taller than the norm there will be an individual two inches shorter than the norm. For every person with an IQ of 110, there will be a reciprocal of 90. There will be as many with 80 as 120.

The Dreaded Bell Curve





For the normal distribution, the values less than one standard deviation away from the mean account for 68.27% of the set; while two standard deviations from the mean account for 95.45%; and three standard deviations account for 99.73%.

The 68–95–99.7 rule is a shorthand for the values that lie within one, two, and three standard deviations of the mean, respectively.

Let's take something simple like IQ. The mean IQ is 100. Using the shorthand method, 68 of one hundred test subjects will be within one standard deviation from the mean of 100. That standard deviation is 15 points. So, under the single standard deviation from 100, 34 people will be between 100 and 115, and 34 people will be between 100 and 85.
95 people will be in the group testing from 70 to 130, two standard deviations on either side of the mean. This mean 5 % of those tested will lie outside the two standard deviations, that is 2.5% will be below 70 and 2.5% will be above 130.

It is just great that 2.5 percent of the population will have IQs higher than 130. But what about the other end of the curve? 2.5% of the population will test below 70? Google says the current population of the U.S. is 321 million. So 2.5% of that means there are 8,025,000 people in the U.S. with IQs less than 70. Expressing their God-given constitutional rights. Buying weapons. Voting.
Should the current problems in the U.S. surprise anybody?
Well, maybe 2.5% are surprised.

But maybe the real threat to humans is not the low testing guy, but the higher tester with a higher vision that requires a violent--and exclusive--application.