• Victor Villas
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    3 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!

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      3 months ago

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

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        3 months ago

        Intelligence follows a normal distribution

        That’s news to me, as I’m not aware of well stablished quantifiable definitions of intelligence.

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          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?