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Boats can't bend steel beams! (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

George Carlin never fails to be accurate: Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are even stupider than that.

[–] rottingleaf 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He's not accurate, though. That'd be the median person. With the average person I'd expect much more than half to be stupider than that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What measure are we using? Standard IQ is normal distributed so the mean and median are the same

[–] rottingleaf 1 points 7 months ago

I was joking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mean, median, and mode are measures of central tendency aka average. It's usually context that indicates which measure we are using when we say average. A lot of the time, when speaking of the average person, we're using the median or mode rather than the mean.

How many fingers does your average person have?

[–] rottingleaf 1 points 7 months ago

I was joking and also didn't know that average in English can be any one of them.