Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?

QaspR@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 458 points –

To clarify here, I don't feel like I'm significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying "facts."

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That's not how averagwa work.

A median is an average and is exactly that.

Intelligence also tends to be a bell curve distribution which means the mean is likely that way too. Also means the mode, the final type of average, is also likely in the middle.

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It kinda is, but only if intelligence is perfectly normally distributed. (Spoilers, it kinda is)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification

By the current "deviation IQ" definition of IQ test standard scores, about two-thirds of all test-takers obtain scores from 85 to 115, and about 5 percent of the population scores above 125 (i.e. normal distribution).

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