I always kinda hate this quote because that's not really how averages work.
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I always kinda hate this quote because that’s not really how averages work.
Averages don’t always* work like that. In a lot of real world cases, that statement is accurate enough. When we are doing average wealth then yea, the numbers will be skewed a lot, but something like height would likely have similar mean and median.
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Think of how stupid the median person is, then realise half of them are stupider than that - Not George Carlin
Half the population: Who’s Median?
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Think of how stupid the median person is, then realise half of them are stupider than that - Not George Carlin
Average can be Median, Mean, Mode or even other measures.
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Averages don’t always* work like that. In a lot of real world cases, that statement is accurate enough. When we are doing average wealth then yea, the numbers will be skewed a lot, but something like height would likely have similar mean and median.
Average ≠ mean necessarily
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Half the population: Who’s Median?
That bitch from biology class?
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I mean, it is intended to be how averages work for sufficiently large sample sizes. That’s the intent of a bell curve. For 800 people, maybe not, but for 8 billion? Probably extremely close.
I guess my point is really just that it’s a curve and not a triangle.
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I always kinda hate this quote because that’s not really how averages work.
It is if the distribution is symmetric and there are enough samples.
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I always kinda hate this quote because that’s not really how averages work.
The joke works because intelligence tests follow a normal bell curve. Therefore, approximately half of the population would actually fall below average.
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Average ≠ mean necessarily
But it does in this context no? We are talking arithmetic here
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I always kinda hate this quote because that’s not really how averages work.
yeah i dont like it either. i always thought that most people were supposed to be of average intelligence. so half of people are average, with the remaining half being split between the dumb dumbs and the geniuses
