pipsqueak1984@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 7 months agoHalf of all Canadians say there are too many immigrants: pollnationalpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareVictor Villas@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 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-up0·7 months agoIntelligence follows a normal distribution, hence, for any reasonably large population, mean and median are the same.
minus-squareVictor Villas@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months ago Intelligence follows a normal distribution That’s news to me, as I’m not aware of well stablished quantifiable definitions of intelligence.
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.