Concerns over immigration are mostly about the economy rather than fears about immigrants changing Canada's social fabric, the poll suggests
  • m0darn
    94·
    9 months ago

    Think of how stupid the average person is and now remember that half of them are stupider than that.

    • Nik282000
      31·
      9 months ago

      I don’t know what worries me more, that I might be in the lower half or the upper 😐

    • Victor Villas
      1·
      9 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!

      • GreyEyedGhost
        1·
        9 months ago

        Intelligence follows a normal distribution, hence, for any reasonably large population, mean and median are the same.

        • Victor Villas
          1·
          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.

          • GreyEyedGhost
            1·
            9 months ago

            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?