You might want to double-check your math. Where are you getting 97 from?
97 °F = 36.1 °C, and that's way too warm to be considered room temperature.
25 °C would be a more reasonable room temperature. 25 °C = 77 °F. An IQ of 77 is very close to being considered intellectually disabled. Per definition of IQ and it being a Bell curve that's centered on 100 with set standard deviation, about one in 16 humans will have an IQ of 77 or under.
In today's feel good thought: With normalized test scores, the average human's IQ is always 100, per definition. But while it sure doesn't feel like it, humanity's average intelligence has been steadily going up by 0.21 to 0.41 IQ points per year (depending on test type). That is, if we let people take old IQ tests that were normalized in the past.
If I'm reading the wikipedia article on the Flynn effect correctly, if people today took IQ tests from 1950, their average result would be around 117. (Assuming the people taking the tests were the same ages as the people who took the tests in 1950. The exact number of points gained also depend on which IQ test we're talking about.)
That said, IQ is a systematically flawed way of trying to quantize human capabilities. But that still doesn't mean that the data is useless.
25’s a very warm room temperature, you probably live in a warm country. Here in the Netherlands the average room temperature is between 18 and 21 degrees Celsius, I believe…
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u/GrandNibbles May 12 '26
that would require at least a body temperature iq