No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world QaspR @lemmy.world 11mo ago

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

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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Not that high a number but there are some complete idiots out there.
- Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of the population is stupider than that.
  
  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.
  
  On average, I think it balances out
  
  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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