• m0darn@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Think of how stupid the average person is and now remember that half of them are stupider than that.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t know what worries me more, that I might be in the lower half or the upper 😐

    • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      half of them are stupider than [the average person]

      About half, depending on how biased the distribution is. The statistic to use for this is the median, not the average!

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        8 months ago

        Intelligence follows a normal distribution, hence, for any reasonably large population, mean and median are the same.

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          8 months ago

          Intelligence follows a normal distribution

          That’s news to me, as I’m not aware of well stablished quantifiable definitions of intelligence.

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            8 months ago

            If you aren’t willing to accept the commonly agreed-upon definitions, which have acknowledged limitations and uncertainties, then why are you bothering to distinguish differences of distribution based on those definitions in the first place?