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  • if an IQ of 100 is average, and you had an IQ of 100, you could say that you’re smarter than 50% of people, right? Let’s call those people (the ones you’re smarter than) group A. It also means that you’re in a group “top 50% of smart people”, which is just all the people smarter than those in group A. We’ll call it group B. Now, let’s say your IQ is 79. That means that now you’re only smarter than 8.1% (based on the picture) of people. Group A is much smaller because there are far fewer people stupid enough to be stupider than you. On the other hand, you’re in group B, which consists of the 91.9% of people who are smarter than group A; I.e. almost everyone.

    Of course, it’s important to remember that IQ tests are not considered by everyone to be fair assessments of real intelligence, but hopefully the example above helps explain what the statistics in the post actually mean.