• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I’m often reminded of the saying

    Imagine how dumb the average person is and realise that half the population are more stupid than that

    • Jay@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      To be fair people like the orange turnip and his followers are heavily tipping the scales in that direction all by themselves.

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        3 months ago

        Intelligence (and I don’t mean IQ but intelligence as an abstract trait) is probably normally distributed just like the vast majority of other biological traits, so the mean is the median