this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
231 points (97.5% liked)

Europe

8484 readers
1 users here now

News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe 🇪🇺

(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, 🇩🇪 ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures

Rules

(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)

  1. Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
  2. No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
  3. No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.

Also check out [email protected]

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 86 points 10 months ago (4 children)

20/80 out of any population are absolute numbskulls

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

Imagine how dumb the average person is, then remember that half the world is dumber than that.

George Carlin

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

50% of humanity is below average Intelligence

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Intelligence is often modelled as a bell curve, where median and average (arithmetic mean) are equal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

W̵̛̬̜͇͕̊͛̑̓̎Ȩ̸̜̱̰̭̠̞͗̆͑́̈́͑̕I̴̮͚͎̲͇͈̯͐̋̕Ģ̷̭̆̑̿̾̀̅̓ͅḨ̴̧̹̩̮̼̟̆̃͆̈́̃T̴̡͔͙̰̣̈́̃́̌̄͗ͅE̴̠̻͇̐͑͂D̵̺̜̠̼̋̊́̈̀̕ ̴̨͎̩̙̤̦͂͐̋̕͠ͅM̷̞̣̺̼̕͜E̴̖̳̯̬̣̍͐̋͐A̶͈̿͌͊̄͋Ņ̷̝̭́͑̂̎̂̕͜

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

median is a type of average, just like arithmetic or geometric mean

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

'bout 1 significant digit, I'd say

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Fourthteenth percent of people know that!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think that's being generous

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There are others that are somewhat numbskulls, then some that are sorta numbskull-ish.

I’ve been all these during my lifetime for sure. Just striving to be ‘Less Numbskull’ is a lifelong pursuit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah life’s quite a work in progress