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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      11 months ago

      Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of the population is stupider than that.

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          11 months ago

          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.

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          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).