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[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Intelligence follows a normal distribution

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

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 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?