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[jinian]

I just noticed that I've learned a valuable lesson in dealing with people since I was little. If someone asks you what a word means, don't look at them in astonishment, just try to explain.

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Law of averages

[kitsap_charles]

Exactly so.

You know how stupid the average person is? By definition, half of them are stupider than that.

Re: Law of averages

[(Anonymous)]

Now I quote this myself a lot, but we are both playing loose with statistics when we do so. 8->

100 may well be the average (although I remember reading with delicious horror that the USA average IQ had fallen below 100) - but it is not the median, which is what the "half are dumber than that" would require.

But anyway we slice it, there's a tremendous amount of dumbness out there. 8->

Australian Joe

Re: Law of averages

[kitsap_charles]

I forget who said it, but the sage once opined that there's a fixed amount of intelligence available, and since the population keeps increasing...