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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.
An IQ distribution is also an average based on people who could take such a test, right? The lowest meaningful score would be around 70, as going down further means more and more severe mental disabilities. At some point a person wouldn't even be able to fully take such a test.
Which means dropping lower than a typical average score is putting a person at the lowest level while still being able to normally function in society.
That's my take on it anyway, it's not as equal of a curve as it's usually made out to be, and it's not based on an overall population group.