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Negative IQ would be more than six sigmas away. I don't think the distribution would hold till tail that far ๐ค
I was wring abou the 13 billion. It's more like 76 billion. But you can reach any number with enough tests.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1%2F%28Integrate%5B1%2F%2815*Sqrt%5B2%CF%80%5D%29e%5E%28-0.5%28%28x-100%29%2F15%29%5E2%29%2C%7Bx%2C-%E2%88%9E%2C0%7D%5D%29
I'm not talking about the normal distribution being valid at some value. Since it's a continuous decaying function in either direction, it'll be kosher at any real number. I'm talking about the hypothesis that IQ will be normally distributed not holding at that far deviations.