Lumifer comments on Accuracy Versus Winning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 12 December 2013 08:48:31PM 0 points [-]

Hm. A quick look around finds this which says that raw scores are standardized by forcing them to the mean of 100 and the standard deviation of 15.

This is a linear transformation and it does not fit anything to a gaussian distribution.

Of course this is just stackexchange -- do you happen to have links to how "proper" IQ test are supposed to convert raw scores into IQ points?

Comment author: hyporational 13 December 2013 01:23:30AM * 1 point [-]

do you happen to have links to how "proper" IQ test are supposed to convert raw scores into IQ points?

If the difficulty of the questions can't be properly quantified, what exactly do the raw scores tell you?

Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2013 01:27:29AM 0 points [-]

See the first sentence of the penultimate paragraph of this.