Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

keeping in mind I don't know anything about IQ tests and you seem to know:

Well, I'd tell you right off the bat that statement is clearly false because a population average at 45 is implausible. 70 is about the lowest mathematically because of how IQ's distribution is done. 100 - 2 stdevs (of 15) = 70. That's why 130 is the other end of the typical IQ tail.

is this just because whatever the lowest scorer is, their theoretical ranking puts them at 70 and then everyone else is adjusted upward?

I can still imagine that there would be a way to logic yourself into considering someone lower than that, even if numerically it would be meaningless based on what IQ is supposed to measure

like if it's 200 questions and the average of even the dumbest people get 50 of them right, so they're considered 70, then it would make sense to consider people who only got 30 right to be lower than that, before the scale is adjusted to make them the new minimum

what if someone got none of them right? just demonstrated no ability to complete even the most basic parts of it? it doesn't make sense to say that someone who is medically brain dead has an IQ of 70, apparently just as smart as a number of others in the population, just because that's what we call the floor