• Pons_Aelius
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    278 months ago

    How do you fall down such a rabbit hole that you believe this dumb shit??

    To paraphrase George Carlin:

    Think for a minute how dumb the average person is…and then realise that half the population is dumber than that.

    • @soul
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      38 months ago

      Ironically, that’s not how averages work.

      • DarkGamer
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        118 months ago

        The median and the mean are usually pretty close when we’re talking about IQ. It’s not like money where a few rich people can throw off the average, as no one has billions of IQ points.

        • @soul
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          8 months ago

          What I said is statistically correct. IQ is a normalized measurement where median and mean are a score of 100 and the average is within 1 SD of 100. (The SD for IQ is 15.) This means that fewer than half will have below-average intelligence when measured using IQ because the lowest value for average is below the median.

          • @AtariDump
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            38 months ago

            Dude, it’s a joke. From a comedian.

            • @soul
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              08 months ago

              No shit, bro? Tell me more things I know.

              • @AtariDump
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                17 months ago

                The sky is blue and water is wet.

      • Pons_Aelius
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        38 months ago

        The irony is someone always points out this rhetorical comedic statement about society and intellegence is not rigorously correct…