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minus-squarecranakis@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·17 hours ago“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” -George Carlin
minus-squareDraghetta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down3·16 hours agoWouldn’t that be the median person? 🤓
minus-squareUnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 minutes agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Summary_of_types Technically they could be talking about the median.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·16 hours agoYes but in this case it likely makes little difference. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” -George Carlin
Wouldn’t that be the median person? 🤓
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Summary_of_types
Technically they could be talking about the median.
Don’t be mean.
Yes but in this case it likely makes little difference.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution