pipsqueak1984@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 8 months agoHalf of all Canadians say there are too many immigrants: pollnationalpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHalf of all Canadians say there are too many immigrants: pollnationalpost.compipsqueak1984@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 8 months agomessage-square102fedilink
minus-squarem0darn@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months ago Think of how stupid the average person and now remember that half of them are super than that.
minus-squareNik282000@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI don’t know what worries me more, that I might be in the lower half or the upper 😐
minus-squareVictor Villas@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 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!
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoIntelligence follows a normal distribution, hence, for any reasonably large population, mean and median are the same.
minus-squareVictor Villas@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months ago Intelligence follows a normal distribution That’s news to me, as I’m not aware of well stablished quantifiable definitions of intelligence.
I don’t know what worries me more, that I might be in the lower half or the upper 😐
About half, depending on how biased the distribution is. The statistic to use for this is the median, not the average!
Intelligence follows a normal distribution, hence, for any reasonably large population, mean and median are the same.
That’s news to me, as I’m not aware of well stablished quantifiable definitions of intelligence.