Intelligence (at least as measured by an IQ test) isn't distributed as a bell curve. Bell curves always include negative values, and intelligence can't be negative.
Asserted without proof. To show this, you'd need to interpret intelligence as something that physically couldn't be negative. I feel safe in saying you haven't done that.
In particular, "intelligence (as measured by an IQ test)" can easily be negative, in the sense of yielding a negative IQ score. It would have to be an unrealistically long test, and you'd need way more people than exist in the world, but those problems apply to the tails of actual normal curves too.
Probability of finding someone with an IQ (as defined as normal distribution with mean 100 and std 15) less than 0 is 1.30839×10^-11
"The distribution of the measured IQ very closely follows a bell curve." would have been the correct way to formulate.
If it's "non-technically correct" it is ill-frased.
This debates started by people stating wrong things but still wanting others to understand them.
The word "technically" is used with "correct" as a rhetoric tool. It seems like they are attacking the truthness of the statement, but in fact they are trying to put the statement into a bigger context. So many people misuse it as such that some even understand it as an attack of the truthness of the statement.
No, they use it as a device to point out that there is more context around the discussion than whether or not something is true or false (hence my point about 2-valued logic).
I could say race is defined by genetics, and while that's technically correct, it adds nothing to a discussion about race relations.
This is the context in which people use this term.
When people say things like "you're technically correct, the best kind of correct", it's a tongue in cheek way of pointing out the observation is true, but lacks contextual information in order to be useful. This is why it tends to be a joke, in general everyone implicitly understands this.
I could say race is defined by genetics, and while that's technically
correct, it adds nothing to a discussion about race relations.
Genetics define physical race. That is technically correct, hence it's plain correct and it's true.
If a statement doesn't add to a discussion, then it's misusing of language to say that the statement is "technically correct" instead of clearly saying that the statement is not relevant.
It could be conventional to use "technically correct" to mean "true but important context is missing", so everybody understood it. Some define a language to be correct the way it is used commonly. However, I don't agree and I'd still consider it misusing language.
If context is missing, then why talking about the correctness instead of supplying missing context?
People using "technically correct" like you described indirectly devalue correctness. That follows the lines of valuing more the consequences of a statement than whether it's true or not.
I'd rather see the world like it is than how I'd like it to be. Therefore, correctness is very important to me and I think it shouldn't be subtly devalued.
How about you?
You'll outgrow that attitude eventually, you should revisit that last post when you do.