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He can vote too
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What does that even mean? There is no "highest IQ". They are also definitely not smarter than 91% of people?
Being in the top 91% means 91% are the same or greater than you.
It means that 91.9% are smarter than him and he is smarter than 8.1%. So the vast majority of people have a higher IQ than he does.
It's definitely confusingly presented, but what it's saying is that he's in the group of people that make up the smartest 92% of the population. So 8% are dumber than him.
If you were really wealthy, you might say that you were the top 1%, so 99% are poorer than you. In this case, he's in the top 92% of intelligence wealth, so only 8% have less intelligence than him.
Other way around. Only 8% have a lower IQ than him.
That's exactly what they said.
This thread is hilarious
It's percentage of the entire population, if you organized everyone from lowest to highest IQ, what percentage of the entire population would you need to include for them to be in the top. It's a little clearer when a point of interest is near the top. E.G. "person is in the top 1% of people in terms of wealth."
A less kind way to say it is '91% of people have a higher IQ than this person'.
It's the way people classify stuff for some reason, you get 3rd place you're in "top 3", same thing for percentages, get the 91% smartest people (almost everyone) and this guy's in it.