Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?
Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?
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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Not that high a number but there are some complete idiots out there.
Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of the population is stupider than that.
That's not how averagwa work.
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.
Nah, fam. A median is a 100% trimmed mean. The mode is something else entirely. Though intelligence is thought of as normally distributed, it's difficult to make claims about it's skew. For that you need a measure of shape, not location.
On average, I think it balances out
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).