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[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago (4 children)

20/80 out of any population are absolute numbskulls

[–] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 37 points 1 year ago

Imagine how dumb the average person is, then remember that half the world is dumber than that.

George Carlin

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

50% of humanity is below average Intelligence

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] fatzgebum@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Intelligence is often modelled as a bell curve, where median and average (arithmetic mean) are equal.

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

median is a type of average, just like arithmetic or geometric mean

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

'bout 1 significant digit, I'd say

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's being generous

[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are others that are somewhat numbskulls, then some that are sorta numbskull-ish.

I’ve been all these during my lifetime for sure. Just striving to be ‘Less Numbskull’ is a lifelong pursuit.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah life’s quite a work in progress

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fourthteenth percent of people know that!!