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minus-squareMrScottyTay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·4 months agoI’m often reminded of the saying Imagine how dumb the average person is and realise that half the population are more stupid than that
minus-squareJay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoTo be fair people like the orange turnip and his followers are heavily tipping the scales in that direction all by themselves.
minus-squareXeroxchasechase@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·4 months agoAverage doesn’t have to be in the middle. You’ve probably meant “median”
minus-squaredactylotheca@suppo.filinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-24 months agoIntelligence (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
minus-squareslackassassin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoIn other words, and less often repeated, “half of them are smarter than that!”
minus-squareMrScottyTay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoI mean… Median is a type of average, just because I wasn’t being specific doesn’t mean I was wrong
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
To be fair people like the orange turnip and his followers are heavily tipping the scales in that direction all by themselves.
Average doesn’t have to be in the middle. You’ve probably meant “median”
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
In other words, and less often repeated, “half of them are smarter than that!”
I mean… Median is a type of average, just because I wasn’t being specific doesn’t mean I was wrong