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Given IQ scores are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 , the proportion of people with s above 130 is:

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Given the assumption of a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, a score of 130 represents a z-score of 2. In different mostly older handbooks of descriptive statistics you can find a ‘from z to percentile-table’. Nowadays it’s more easy to use the computer. Using R, a free and open source statistical environment (www.r-project.org), you can use the command pnorm (130, 100, 15) and it will give 0.9772. Because yo want the proportion above that score you use 1-pnorm (130, 100, 15). Another way of writing in R and with for example 3 IQ-scores:

perc = pnorm (c (70, 100, 130), 100, 15)

(1 - perc)

gives you the above-proportion of the IQ-scores of respectively 70, 100 and 130.

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