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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
It means that the mean and standard distribution have been calibrated to a population, but that the population kurtosis is significantly non-normal
Incorrect. It's also possible if human intelligence isn't normally distributed.
Only if intelligence of the human population is normally distributed.
No you don't. You have invented this unnecessary step.
No, because the "person" and the z score have no link.
If a rock has zero intelligence, how can something score lower? Negative intelligence is impossible.
Look, I'm saying the same thing that I also found on Wikipedia. You just put the scores in order and then you fit them to a normal curve. This is what it means to scale them ordinally and then fit this to a normal distribution.
Its clear that we aren't going to agree on any of this, so I'm going to stop replying.
Additonally, you seem to incorrectly think that an IQ of 0 would mean zero intelligence when I have explained exactly what an IQ of zero would mean.
It's pretty obvious that a rock can't have an IQ of anything but zero.