To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”

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    10 months ago

    Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of the population is stupider than that.

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        10 months ago

        A median is an average and is exactly that.

        Intelligence also tends to be a bell curve distribution which means the mean is likely that way too. Also means the mode, the final type of average, is also likely in the middle.

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        10 months ago

        It kinda is, but only if intelligence is perfectly normally distributed. (Spoilers, it kinda is)

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification

        By the current “deviation IQ” definition of IQ test standard scores, about two-thirds of all test-takers obtain scores from 85 to 115, and about 5 percent of the population scores above 125 (i.e. normal distribution).