• MrScottyTay
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    5 months ago

    I’m often reminded of the saying

    Imagine how dumb the average person is and realise that half the population are more stupid than that

    • Jay@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      To be fair people like the orange turnip and his followers are heavily tipping the scales in that direction all by themselves.

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        5 months ago

        Intelligence (and I don’t mean IQ but intelligence as an abstract trait) is probably normally distributed just like the vast majority of other biological traits, so the mean is the median

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          5 months ago

          In other words, and less often repeated, “half of them are smarter than that!”

      • MrScottyTay
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        5 months ago

        I mean… Median is a type of average, just because I wasn’t being specific doesn’t mean I was wrong