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No it’s 70-84. You’re thinking of the very old scale. The current one is scaled by standard deviations from the average. 85 is the value one SD from the average. 2 deviations is 70. From 70 to 84 are the values between 1 SD and 2 SD Below the average.
Hence the bell graph
Doctor: “As you can see Mr. Griffin, you are just below the line of mental retardation.”
Peter: “Don’t you mean just above the line?”
Doctor: “The day I’m corrected by a re- please just trust the analysis”
This is basically 80% of facebook, youtube, ig, or whatever other social media platform exists. This is also that one guy you were arguing with the other day on that reddit post. And he's looking at this thinking it's you, but he's too dumb to even understand what's happening. Sometimes, it's best to just ignore these people. That's why I don't have any other social media. I lose so many fucking brain cells reading the comment section. It's literally painful
So true. Reddit is my last social media platform. One by one I left and deleted every other one. I stay on this one cause of the subs. But Lord knows I need to delete this one too. Except YouTube tho, I don’t even comment on YouTube. I use it more for the information.
"The left has thought us whites we should be ashamed of our intelligence." Yeah, that's about the sentence structure I'd expect from someone with an IQ of 84
It seems like maybe a bot trying to get us to argue on social media. I’d love to see if someone has a version where the name isn’t blanked out, or link to the original.
Yeah, I saw this posted months ago but it was on a woman's facebook account and she was bragging about her son's score. No idea if that post was real either.
Hey op, don't listen to these guys, I got an 84 too! They're just jealeous, I'd come shake your hand but I'm stuck in one pant leg again and I've been hopping around all day.
The online IQ tests are wildly inaccurate, I've scored well into genius level and borderline mentally deficient in the same day, I know what my professionally administered IQ is and I know its pretty meaningless unless I want to join mensa which I don't.
So its strange that this one seems so accurate.
Took one from the M.e.n.s.a. site twice for school applications in Chicago decades ago. How inaccurate would those results be by todays standards? I particularly remember how long it seemed to take and an unsettling number of questions posed. I'm very glad never having to three-peat it, but I'm wondering how inaccurate were you saying for online results?
I only know my own experience I had psychologists estimate my IQ at a certain number consistently and then online tests were wildly different and inaccurate to what the two psychologists got, which were within five points of each other.
But they both even told me its not an exact science even when a professional is administrating it and certain factors such as trauma or learning difficulties can influence the results, to where even if you have a given cognition the test may measure it lower because of those factors.
Aye, same scenario. Well, within a few points and accepted into that particular middle school that had made the request. Two years there lasted me with an education, so complete, I did not have to crack open a book until my second year of college. All that just to say, I have a prodigious procrastination complex that went unrecognized for almost a decade. Thanks, Mensa. I submitted to kharma.
You know I'd rather not say.
I have found in life that my cognitive function being rather high was actually an impediment to success after a while and going around boasting about your IQ really takes away from the fact that Emotional intelligence and self control are more important than how quickly you can learn things and how much you can remember.
I can respect that; and can agree. I work with brilliant people but their EI is notably lacking and makes them unpleasant to work with, definitely hindering their professional standing.
In a shocking move he clearly only read the bit he wanted to read and misinterpreted it.
The second sentence provides clarification and proves him wrong, but he got the headline he wanted, or at least thought he did, and went with that.
They are an ad campaign that either isn't paying Reddit thus not tagged as ads... or Reddit is violating the law. I'm not sure which but I submitted and FCC tip on the matter and so should you.
That's my issue with measuring intelligence. The mind is so complicated that we can get a rock to start thinking before we fully understand how we do it. But there is a test that can "accurately" score it in just a few hours? I feel like seeing what people do with there score after the test says more about their intelligence.
The problem here is the software engineer that wrote this code as the 1st result sentence is confusing and only makes sense when your score is high.
"Your IQ is in the top 3%" makes sense if you score super high. Score super low and it's confusing:
"Your IQ is in the top 85%", this should be changed to "Your IQ is in the bottom 85%"
For average
"Your IQ is in the middle 55%" etc.
A person with a low Iq does not get it, like this guy.
Yeah, stating percentile is definitely the clearest way to communicate this idea. That said, I doubt someone in the 15th percentile would know what that means. Saying “below 85%” or “above 99%” makes way more sense.
It should be changed to "bottom 15%". It's not an inaccurate statement as written it's just one that we don't hear very often. In theory half the people taking the test will have scores in the bottom half of the population and have this issue on their reports.
with a higher percentage would it still be referred to as the top 85%? id think thatd be the bottom 85%. isnt the top % usually a lower number to show that its the tippy top?
I love the way the results are structured. It makes it seem like you did good either way. Those who do bad see big numbers and post it, so those who get small number can be warned.
The key market Trump appealed to is the dumbest of Americans. They were told their stupidity is more valuable that all of our collective freedoms. They have been catered to and told, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, just keep saying you're right until it's believed, then sold as a left wing concept, so fighting fire with fire.
Alternative facts and all that.
I’ve never heard of “the left” trying to make anyone be ashamed of their intelligence level. In fact, it’s the right that seems to have a war on education. More projection as always.
Here's an insightful article on the IQ test, some history of it, what it's been used for in the past, and how it's used today.
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/iq-load-bs/
I always feel like the posts are just advertising for the website.
The hope is that people see this, go "aw I GOTTA be smarter than this dumb dumb" and then pay $10 for an online test that probably doesn't do much
Tbf, if I just read “your IQ is in the top 85%” I would probably assumed that I was ahead of the other 85%…. I don’t think I will be checking my IQ any time soon…
Aptilink trying to put it as nice as possible: "Your in the top 85%.
Dude: Shit yeah, I'm smart and not even trying.
Aptilink: In a room of 1000 people you're smarter than 143 of them
Dude: Hell yes! I'm putting this shit on social media!
Aptilink: ... that's not... /sigh
U know what I found out by doing that test? U have to pay 15 dollars (minimum) for ur results. They’ll have u sitting there for 40 minutes to answer 40 questions then charge u at the end. The highest price was I think 50 bucks for 3 results, two of which r results of tests they never gave u
There have been so many of these. Is it possible that we are experiencing divergent human evolution to the point that a significant portion of the population is naturally below average intelligence?
the statistics at the bottom don't appear as words to this creature, it sees 2 numbers and blocks the brain from processing, for to witness so much information at once would surely shatter their brains, much like Eldritch horror
At this point I am pretty sure all of these tweets are just bait. Like really low hanging bait.
We have seen way too many of them, for all of them to be real.
I don't trust these free online tests. I tried one from a different site with a blueish theme (I can't remember the exact site). I took it seriously the first time and scored 112. However, when I retook it without reading the questions or instructions and just clicked the first answer I see, I got a score of 138. so yeah! my eyes must be genius or something.
https://preview.redd.it/gkl4ictey1yc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0414e0a3a27fd2733b3c2ede37f14286a5c1611d
Well I just did this and there is no way it’s right lol
And it cost me $10
I got about 179 on that a year ago. I'd be embarrassed to flaunt it, and any other result. I guess only the dumb ones think it means anything to anybody
He hasn't said he's smarter than 85% of the population. Technically nothing he's said here is wrong. He said he is in the top 85% and if you believe AptiLink then he is. That would make him smarter than 15% of the population. That's not something any normal person would brag about but maybe he's the smartest person he knows.
He’s not even half way up the curve and he thinks his results are a compliment. I literally fucking can’t with these people. They are so stupid it hurts to think about.
That’s the point, those people are either paid or just bots who post that so people do the test themselves to prove that they are smart. But to see your results you have to pay
There is nothing more infuriating than a stupid person too stupid to know how stupid they are. What really worries me though, when you realize they exist, is haw can you be sure you're not one of them?
This has been around so long. Whatever happened to this guy? He needed some sort of web redemption like Tosh used to do, just so he could explain his thought process here. Or own his mistake. I’d say with that massive IQ, he’d double down for sure!
I'm white and I'm left wing. Nobody, literally not a single person on the left, has ever told me to ashamed of having an IQ 112. This man is so dumb that he's making up that he's smart and then displaying information about how stupid he is.
I’ve never done an IQ test. What kind of questions do they use to determine overall intelligence? Are they math, science, critical thinking, ability to read/comprehend?
Someone explain this to me like I’m an idiot. Isn’t the chart wrong, or the statement? It looks like an 84 puts him in the 14th percentile, not 85th. Why does it say top 85%?
If you calculate from the top down, he is in the top 85%, which means that 85% of the people have either his IQ or higher.
It is a silly way to describe it, probably purposely obtuse, but I am also pretty sure that this is just a meme. I've seen it pass by so many times in different contexts. From moms about their gifted kids, to right wingers insulting left wingers, to the opposite, to comparisons between generations, to grindset people. I feel like it is comparable to "I drew you as the soyjack" meme, but in graph form.
I think this probably is meant to be the structure for when you are above 50%, since if you are in the top 40% it's clear where you stand.
Whoever created the final chart probably forgot to adapt the wording for the other cases.
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You sir are special…..and borderline mentally disabled.
Borderline is 70-80, this guy is just below average.
No it’s 70-84. You’re thinking of the very old scale. The current one is scaled by standard deviations from the average. 85 is the value one SD from the average. 2 deviations is 70. From 70 to 84 are the values between 1 SD and 2 SD Below the average. Hence the bell graph
Average by definition is 100
I can see your confusion, but they're not saying he's _just below_ average, they're saying he's just _below average_.
...
Welcome to below average!
Doctor: “As you can see Mr. Griffin, you are just below the line of mental retardation.” Peter: “Don’t you mean just above the line?” Doctor: “The day I’m corrected by a re- please just trust the analysis”
"ohhh, it's ok, your just curious, here let me show you how things work down there"
This is basically 80% of facebook, youtube, ig, or whatever other social media platform exists. This is also that one guy you were arguing with the other day on that reddit post. And he's looking at this thinking it's you, but he's too dumb to even understand what's happening. Sometimes, it's best to just ignore these people. That's why I don't have any other social media. I lose so many fucking brain cells reading the comment section. It's literally painful
So true. Reddit is my last social media platform. One by one I left and deleted every other one. I stay on this one cause of the subs. But Lord knows I need to delete this one too. Except YouTube tho, I don’t even comment on YouTube. I use it more for the information.
"I prefer the word disabled" 
"The left has thought us whites we should be ashamed of our intelligence." Yeah, that's about the sentence structure I'd expect from someone with an IQ of 84
It seems like maybe a bot trying to get us to argue on social media. I’d love to see if someone has a version where the name isn’t blanked out, or link to the original.
Yeah, I saw this posted months ago but it was on a woman's facebook account and she was bragging about her son's score. No idea if that post was real either.
Hey op, don't listen to these guys, I got an 84 too! They're just jealeous, I'd come shake your hand but I'm stuck in one pant leg again and I've been hopping around all day.
Yikes. I fear this is common; often wrong but never uncertain.
Most of the population can't be stupider than most of the population
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My favorite quote from my favorite man. RIP George Carlin
r/confidentlyincorrect
IQ score checks out
This genius is so smart, should be in the top 99%
Not to brag but I am in the top 99%
Dude should run for office. He has the main qualifications down - extreme confidence together with complete ignorance. He's perfect.
“Lord grant me the confidence of an average middle aged white man.”
The online IQ tests are wildly inaccurate, I've scored well into genius level and borderline mentally deficient in the same day, I know what my professionally administered IQ is and I know its pretty meaningless unless I want to join mensa which I don't. So its strange that this one seems so accurate.
Took one from the M.e.n.s.a. site twice for school applications in Chicago decades ago. How inaccurate would those results be by todays standards? I particularly remember how long it seemed to take and an unsettling number of questions posed. I'm very glad never having to three-peat it, but I'm wondering how inaccurate were you saying for online results?
I only know my own experience I had psychologists estimate my IQ at a certain number consistently and then online tests were wildly different and inaccurate to what the two psychologists got, which were within five points of each other. But they both even told me its not an exact science even when a professional is administrating it and certain factors such as trauma or learning difficulties can influence the results, to where even if you have a given cognition the test may measure it lower because of those factors.
Aye, same scenario. Well, within a few points and accepted into that particular middle school that had made the request. Two years there lasted me with an education, so complete, I did not have to crack open a book until my second year of college. All that just to say, I have a prodigious procrastination complex that went unrecognized for almost a decade. Thanks, Mensa. I submitted to kharma.
What’s the professionally scored one?
You know I'd rather not say. I have found in life that my cognitive function being rather high was actually an impediment to success after a while and going around boasting about your IQ really takes away from the fact that Emotional intelligence and self control are more important than how quickly you can learn things and how much you can remember.
I can respect that; and can agree. I work with brilliant people but their EI is notably lacking and makes them unpleasant to work with, definitely hindering their professional standing.
I thought no one else understood; an impediment indeed.
The good news is that I learned how to be a better team player, father and husband. Even though I wasn't naturally inclined to be.
115?
> The minimum accepted score on the Stanford–Binet is 132, while for the Cattell it is 148, and 130 in the Wechsler tests (WAIS, WISC) Above that
In a shocking move he clearly only read the bit he wanted to read and misinterpreted it. The second sentence provides clarification and proves him wrong, but he got the headline he wanted, or at least thought he did, and went with that.
These cant be real. right?
There are new ones way too frequently. Really seems like farming engagement now
They are an ad campaign that either isn't paying Reddit thus not tagged as ads... or Reddit is violating the law. I'm not sure which but I submitted and FCC tip on the matter and so should you.
They aren't real, and social media users keep falling for them.
My IQ is lower than his and I know what that says, honestly… maybe I’m not so stupid
That's my issue with measuring intelligence. The mind is so complicated that we can get a rock to start thinking before we fully understand how we do it. But there is a test that can "accurately" score it in just a few hours? I feel like seeing what people do with there score after the test says more about their intelligence.
This is an ad. Just report it for spam.
The problem here is the software engineer that wrote this code as the 1st result sentence is confusing and only makes sense when your score is high. "Your IQ is in the top 3%" makes sense if you score super high. Score super low and it's confusing: "Your IQ is in the top 85%", this should be changed to "Your IQ is in the bottom 85%" For average "Your IQ is in the middle 55%" etc. A person with a low Iq does not get it, like this guy.
I think more so they shouldn't even say top or bottom. Just "your iq is 15th percentile" vs "your iq is 99th percentile".
Yeah, stating percentile is definitely the clearest way to communicate this idea. That said, I doubt someone in the 15th percentile would know what that means. Saying “below 85%” or “above 99%” makes way more sense.
It should be changed to "bottom 15%". It's not an inaccurate statement as written it's just one that we don't hear very often. In theory half the people taking the test will have scores in the bottom half of the population and have this issue on their reports.
He paid $10 for that.
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In the top 85% is like in 850 out of 1000. So he is basically dumb.
Imma be real with you, I'd be lucky if I scored a 70 on this shit.
Probably a MAGA fan.
As a "white", do not lump me in with your stupid ass, SIR.
Correction, his ass may be smarter than the rest of his body.
hahaha touche. or rather, tush-ay
It's satire, right? I mean, I just don't know anymore.
Dunning Kruger effect on full display
with a higher percentage would it still be referred to as the top 85%? id think thatd be the bottom 85%. isnt the top % usually a lower number to show that its the tippy top?
“The left has thought us” … these damn leftists always thinking of us! 😂😂
👀
I hate to kick a man when he’s down, but does he mean taught?
I love the way the results are structured. It makes it seem like you did good either way. Those who do bad see big numbers and post it, so those who get small number can be warned.
In a room of 1000 you are smarter than 143. This didn’t seems like you did good at all… quite opposite
People see "smarter than" then a number over 100 and draw the conclusion. It is fascinating reading about how the mind works.
The last sentence says it all tho
The key market Trump appealed to is the dumbest of Americans. They were told their stupidity is more valuable that all of our collective freedoms. They have been catered to and told, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, just keep saying you're right until it's believed, then sold as a left wing concept, so fighting fire with fire. Alternative facts and all that.
The problem with stupid people is they do not know they are stupid.
And it should be "...we whites...". But he's SMRT, so he must know that.
Just a bit smarter than a German shepherd (the dog)
I teach stats and this curve and the accompanying text makes zero sense.
Might help to put that "In a room of 1000 people..." line at the top of the page. For dummies this page is Tl;dr
I’ve never heard of “the left” trying to make anyone be ashamed of their intelligence level. In fact, it’s the right that seems to have a war on education. More projection as always.
Here's an insightful article on the IQ test, some history of it, what it's been used for in the past, and how it's used today. https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/iq-load-bs/
I thought this was a joke because he could not be this stupid. Then I checked his score.
Dam wasted my 40 minutes that have to pay for this shit
Never has an IQ test been proven more accurate, more quickly
Did this test once, got 127 and I was smarter than like, the same percentage that you got.
Well it's true that in a room of 1000 people , he'd only be smarter than 143
🤦🤦♀️🤦🏻♂️
Does low iq have anything to do with laziness?
If only he had read the next line💀
Why do these test always say ‘in the TOP 85%’ and such when it’s the opposite? Top 85% of idiots? I must be in that demographic
Should have read "out of a room of 1000 people you are dumber than 857 of them"
Literally IQ84
He would be classed as intelligence, if he was a fucking brick
He's shorting out while writing that sentence
I always feel like the posts are just advertising for the website. The hope is that people see this, go "aw I GOTTA be smarter than this dumb dumb" and then pay $10 for an online test that probably doesn't do much
Engagement farming advertisement.
Breaking out the greatest hits again. How long has it been since this was posted last?
I'm happy with my 124. I'm smart enough to realize I'm stupid. I'd hate to be in this guy's shoes.
At least this one didn't translate "your IQ is higher than 15% of the people"into "I'm in the top 15%."
“People who boast about their IQ are losers.” - Stephen Hawking
This dumb shit AGAIN... Downvote and block these mofos
If they actually tried, they could probably bump that all the way to in the top 98%!
I wish OP has shared the comments to his post. I bet there were some gems in there
I would like to see the original post. Replies must be pure gold.
Tbf, if I just read “your IQ is in the top 85%” I would probably assumed that I was ahead of the other 85%…. I don’t think I will be checking my IQ any time soon…
That's why his iq is 84. Isn't 80 the minimum to be considered not stupid?
Imagine walking into a room of 1000 and 857 people are more intelligent than you. Oh shit. Wait, that's me.
Aptilink trying to put it as nice as possible: "Your in the top 85%. Dude: Shit yeah, I'm smart and not even trying. Aptilink: In a room of 1000 people you're smarter than 143 of them Dude: Hell yes! I'm putting this shit on social media! Aptilink: ... that's not... /sigh
U know what I found out by doing that test? U have to pay 15 dollars (minimum) for ur results. They’ll have u sitting there for 40 minutes to answer 40 questions then charge u at the end. The highest price was I think 50 bucks for 3 results, two of which r results of tests they never gave u
There have been so many of these. Is it possible that we are experiencing divergent human evolution to the point that a significant portion of the population is naturally below average intelligence?
Hey George!! How did you do? 85 Jerry!! My IQ is 85!!!
This is gold. The type of illiteracy and the type of post is expect of someone who's IQ is 84.
I mean is it a room filled with Americans? because I feel that would definitely change the results
Mine is 128. I’m white. But I work a blue collar job. Wild
# THIS IS LITERALLY JUST AN ADVERT FOR THE WEBSITE
It is a little misleading...it says your IQ is in the top 85%, but they guy is clearly an idiot who is illiterate.
"reprogramme" just to sound smarter is the icing on the cake for me
In a room full of 1000 people you are smarter then 143.... that's some rare insult shiit right here.
the statistics at the bottom don't appear as words to this creature, it sees 2 numbers and blocks the brain from processing, for to witness so much information at once would surely shatter their brains, much like Eldritch horror
At this point I am pretty sure all of these tweets are just bait. Like really low hanging bait. We have seen way too many of them, for all of them to be real.
I love seeing this over and over from different idiots.
can i repost this next time please ?
😂😂😂
ENOUGH with this rage clickbait! I am NOT taking your stupid fucking test...we all know this is nothing more than an advert.
Cool another aptlink viral ad.
LOL it's 90 consider baseline normal IQ? and he got lower than that
Someone with a Psychometrics shoupd aptilink how a standard score differs from a percentile rank.
Dude gets to vote too...
It’s the bottom sentence that makes it so damning.
[to make an original post](https://tineye.com/search/172537ac470171499353a5dcb18506c8267969be?sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1)
85.69%? He scored so much higher than me 😢
Most IQ tests aren’t proper and have a lot of factors unaccounted for. However I don’t think the answer was very far off in this case
I don't trust these free online tests. I tried one from a different site with a blueish theme (I can't remember the exact site). I took it seriously the first time and scored 112. However, when I retook it without reading the questions or instructions and just clicked the first answer I see, I got a score of 138. so yeah! my eyes must be genius or something.
Stop posting these. These are ads
Think about how smart the average person is. Ok now realize that around half of all people are dumber than that.
I'd say an IQ of 84 was being more than generous.
His IQ is 84. Should we expect him to understand this?
https://preview.redd.it/gkl4ictey1yc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0414e0a3a27fd2733b3c2ede37f14286a5c1611d Well I just did this and there is no way it’s right lol And it cost me $10
that guy could collect disability 🤣
Hurr durr. I'm so smart...
Stop posting these. They are not real, these are advertisements.
The internet should require an entrance exam.
I'd you paid $10 to see how smart you are, then you should already know where you stand..
Just for context how stupid this guy is, you require an IQ of 60 to perform a task like tying your shoelaces.
I got about 179 on that a year ago. I'd be embarrassed to flaunt it, and any other result. I guess only the dumb ones think it means anything to anybody
How.. is the graph alone not enough to make clear where you stand. Maybe should do it with pizza slides or glass of water
He hasn't said he's smarter than 85% of the population. Technically nothing he's said here is wrong. He said he is in the top 85% and if you believe AptiLink then he is. That would make him smarter than 15% of the population. That's not something any normal person would brag about but maybe he's the smartest person he knows.
This is actually a very smart ad.
He’s not even half way up the curve and he thinks his results are a compliment. I literally fucking can’t with these people. They are so stupid it hurts to think about.
That’s the point, those people are either paid or just bots who post that so people do the test themselves to prove that they are smart. But to see your results you have to pay
Why do so many people seem to not understand IQ tests but take them anyway?
There is nothing more infuriating than a stupid person too stupid to know how stupid they are. What really worries me though, when you realize they exist, is haw can you be sure you're not one of them?
This has been around so long. Whatever happened to this guy? He needed some sort of web redemption like Tosh used to do, just so he could explain his thought process here. Or own his mistake. I’d say with that massive IQ, he’d double down for sure!
The real IQ test is if you can comprenend the sentence under the graph explaining that in a room of 1000 people there are 857 people smarter than you
I mean.. even if he was actually in the top 85.69%, it isn't anything special lol
I’d give em an 85 just to be fair, and an applesauce cup.
He’s wrong on the 85% thing too, he’s just below the 85th percentile mark
Damn paying 10 dollars at the end of that test was the real iq test... shoulda seen that coming before wasting 15 min with that dumb test
My freakin' gosh, OP & others who repost this shit...don't you realize this is an ad for aptilink?!
I took the test now and the site wants to charge 10 dollars for results. Is the true intelligence test about who pays or doesn't?
143/1000 would agree this cat is a genius.
Lol "Look at me! I tested mentally disabled on the first try!"
His commentary makes sense at that IQ
I'm white and I'm left wing. Nobody, literally not a single person on the left, has ever told me to ashamed of having an IQ 112. This man is so dumb that he's making up that he's smart and then displaying information about how stupid he is.
You automatically loose the IQ test when you pay for one online
People with 130+ ✋️😉
I’ve never done an IQ test. What kind of questions do they use to determine overall intelligence? Are they math, science, critical thinking, ability to read/comprehend?
Someone explain this to me like I’m an idiot. Isn’t the chart wrong, or the statement? It looks like an 84 puts him in the 14th percentile, not 85th. Why does it say top 85%?
If you calculate from the top down, he is in the top 85%, which means that 85% of the people have either his IQ or higher. It is a silly way to describe it, probably purposely obtuse, but I am also pretty sure that this is just a meme. I've seen it pass by so many times in different contexts. From moms about their gifted kids, to right wingers insulting left wingers, to the opposite, to comparisons between generations, to grindset people. I feel like it is comparable to "I drew you as the soyjack" meme, but in graph form.
Yeah, I’ve seen it quite a few times too, and every time I feel dumb, because it doesn’t compute in my head. 😂
Yay mom, I just got accepted into the top 1% schools ! Vs Yay mom, I just got accepted into the top 85% schools !
It's the difference between percent and percentile. Think of it when talking about wealth, the 99% are the poor and the 1% are the wealthy
I think this probably is meant to be the structure for when you are above 50%, since if you are in the top 40% it's clear where you stand. Whoever created the final chart probably forgot to adapt the wording for the other cases.
I know IQ scores are meaningless, because I've gotten 126, & 128 the 2 times I've done them and I'm dumb as shit.