• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    9 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.

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        9 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.

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          9 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.

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        9 months ago

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