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Part IV - Applications of Intelligence Research
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Previous chapters have explored the dimensions of intelligence, its measurement, and various approaches to understanding it. We have seen that, for many aspects of human functioning, the distribution of human intelligence approximates to a normal distribution. This means that if we were to place a score for each person on a graph, the numbers of those at each point on the x-axis would decrease as we moved away from the mean. These numbers fall away particularly sharply as we move toward the extremes, a distribution that is often referred to as the bell curve.
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- Human IntelligenceAn Introduction, pp. 315 - 466Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019