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codethief
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Trump wins presidency for second time
I take it confusing the arithmetic average for the median is part of the joke?
badmintonbaseba
on Nov 6, 2024
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Intelligence is not inherently quantifiable. IQ is an arbitrary way to quantify it, but there average and median is pretty much equal by definition.
a-french-anon
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IQ roughly follows a Gaussian distribution, so median and average are the same here.
wavemode
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IQ is normally distributed, so the two are the same.
Jensson
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"The average person" typically means the median person.
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