ARE YOU NORMAL?

You want to be normal on how much you sleep/night, because if you average 7 hours or less, your life expectancy can drop by a decade and more.  If you sleep more than 8 hours/night, then you have an ailment of some sort, physical and/or mental.  Scroll down to the next article for details.

When it comes to blood tests, you also want to be normal.  I am doing fine here.  Are you?

However, you want a reasonably high IQ to improve your socio-economic status.  A 100 IQ means you are average, 50%, smarter than half the population and dumber than the other half:

• 120 and only 9% are smarter than you
• 125 and less than 5% are smarter than you
• 135 and less than 1% are smarter than  you
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From what I could discern, that 100 IQ average applies to the white population.  The average for African-Americans is 85, with Hispanics somewhere in-between, and there is uncertainty where Asians and Jewish people center.  That according to this.

The average IQ for college graduates is 115, with 105 for high school graduates and 125 for those with PhDs.  Some of this involves guesswork, but the IQ of the average Harvard student is probably between 128 and 134.  Bill Gates, the billionaire who never graduated from Harvard?  170.  Average self-made billionaire?  Around 130.  Incidentally, with 2% the U.S. population, 35% of the richest 400 are Jewish Americans.  It is surmised that the average Nobel Laureate has an IQ of 150, but if in literature, then 140.

What about how fast one walks or runs?

• average man jogs at 9.3 MPH or 100 meters in 27 seconds
• average woman jogs at 6.5 MPH, or 100m in 34 seconds
• if you can run really fast, you attain a speed of 15.9 MPH, or will take between 13-14 seconds to run 100 meters
• Usain Bolt has the 100 meter world record at 9.58 seconds, or he averaged 23.35 MPH
• Sarah, a cheetah at the Cincinnati Zoo:  100m in 5.95 seconds
• Brett Lee, a greyhound:  100m in 5.6 seconds
• Winning Brew, a racehorse:  100M in 5.1 seconds
• Any car going at 70 MPH will travel 100M in 3.2 seconds

Of course, the chart to the right shows how poorly humans compare to animals when it comes to athleticism.  We are smarter.

The historic life expectancy at birth in years were:

• Paleolithic period (2.6 million to 12,000 years ago):  33
• Bronze/Iron Ages (3300 to 300 AD):  26 (note the drop!)
• Classical Greece:  25-28
• Classical Rome:  20-30
• Medieval/Islamic world:  35+
• Pre-Columbian North America:  25-30
• Medieval English:  30
• Early modern England:  33-40 (18th century)
• 18th century France:  27.5-30
• 18th century China:  39.6
• 18th century Japan:  41.1
• 1900 world average:  31
• 1950 world average:  48
• 2014 world average:  71.5

Life expectancy at birth today for Swaziland is about 49, and Japan, 83.  Why did Paleolithic cave people live longer than later age civilizations?  We didn't catch up to them until the 18th century.  Is there something to the Paleolithic diet?  Maybe to come later.

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