Experiment What do you think descriptive statistics around IQ are on this forum?

[WastedPotential]

1. Measures of Central Tendency – Where is the center of the data?

• Mean: The average (sum of all values divided by the number of values).
• Median: The middle value when the data is ordered.
• Mode: The most frequently occurring value.

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2. Measures of Dispersion – How spread out is the data?​

• Range: Difference between the highest and lowest values.
• Variance: Average of the squared differences from the mean.
• Standard deviation (SD): Square root of the variance; indicates how much values deviate from the mean.
• Interquartile range (IQR): Difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles (Q3 - Q1).

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3. Shape of Distribution​

• Skewness: Measures the asymmetry of the data distribution.
• Kurtosis: Measures the "tailedness" of the distribution.
  
  
  I'm mostly interested in the kurtosis (that's why I polled it):
  
  

 

[WastedPotential]

Mean aka average: I think around 105 personally (100 is global average)
Median: probably similar, 105 considering decent amount of ppl use forum
mode: doesn't matter

range: I think pretty high.
Variance Sd and IQR all similar like the range

Skewness: probably pretty normal (in the middle)
kurtosis: low

 

[AtrociousCitizen]

Probably more leptokurtic.

 

[WastedPotential]

Probably more leptokurtic.

Why do you think so?

 

[AtrociousCitizen]

Why do you think so?

Because most guys here seem to be average IQ, but you also get a bunch of extreme outliers.

 

[WastedPotential]

Because most guys here seem to be average IQ, but you also get a bunch of extreme outliers.

Fair, I haven't been around long enough to be able to tell, why do you think this is the case btw>

 

[Sonicfancel]

Platykurtic. Since geckoBus said he was a 94 IQ i can't stop seeing that many of the users are outliers, as to be expected from a site for outliers.

 

[WastedPotential]

Platykurtic. Since geckoBus said he was a 94 IQ i can't stop seeing that many of the users are outliers, as to be expected from a site for outliers.

I think the same, but it's hard to say. there could be arguments made for leptokurtic as well. Any other reason you think it'sdifferent from global?
Also what do you think about the other statistics?

 

[AtrociousCitizen]

Fair, I haven't been around long enough to be able to tell, why do you think this is the case btw>

It's difficult to pinpoint the reason for this distribution definitively, but it could stem from the fact that this forum draws in a significant number of outliers and, due to neurodivergence, which increases variability of IQ, as well as the fact that being male contributes to variance further. Also, I think the distribution has heavier tails without a very sharp center, so I might be mixing up the terms.

 

[MattTheFramecel]

I most likely lower all the stats

 

[WastedPotential]

It's difficult to pinpoint the reason for this distribution definitively, but it could stem from the fact that this forum draws in a significant number of outliers and, due to neurodivergence, which increases variability of IQ, as well as the fact that being male contributes to variance further. Also, I think the distribution has heavier tails without a very sharp center, so I might be mixing up the terms.

Oh so you think it's platykurtic too?

 

[Sonicfancel]

there could be arguments made for leptokurtic as well.

Which ones?

Any other reason you think it's different from global?

The desire to be different, even better that normies. Plus the global reach of inceldom.

Also what do you think about the other statistics?

Just noise.

 

[WastedPotential]

Which ones?

>Unironically midwit meme

but in all seriousness, maybe because low iq ppl are less likely to stumble upon a forum like this/care or have patience to look into BP, probably other hobbies than sitting on pc all day as well.
and high iq ppl less, maybe because they are busy with other stuff because of their high iq and perhaps just lurking if they are here at all.

The desire to be different, even better that normies. Plus the global reach of inceldom.

Explain,

Just noise.

Skewness too?

 

[InvoluntaryChigga]

Due to the high concentrations of the tisms + normie midwits being more prone to group think its probably Platykurtic

 

[Sonicfancel]

Explain,

The desire to be different is because truecels are typically nonconformist; they don't try to fit in with the normies because they recognize it's a waste of time.

Skewness too?

Yeah.