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minus-squarem0darn@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down4·edit-29 months ago Think of how stupid the average person is and now remember that half of them are stupider than that.
minus-squareNik282000@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months agoI don’t know what worries me more, that I might be in the lower half or the upper 😐
minus-squareVictor Villas@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 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!
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoIntelligence follows a normal distribution, hence, for any reasonably large population, mean and median are the same.
minus-squareVictor Villas@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months ago Intelligence follows a normal distribution That’s news to me, as I’m not aware of well stablished quantifiable definitions of intelligence.
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoIf 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?
I don’t know what worries me more, that I might be in the lower half or the upper 😐
About half, depending on how biased the distribution is. The statistic to use for this is the median, not the average!
Intelligence follows a normal distribution, hence, for any reasonably large population, mean and median are the same.
That’s news to me, as I’m not aware of well stablished quantifiable definitions of intelligence.
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?