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.”

    • ChickenBoo@lemmy.jnks.xyz
      41·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • QaspR@lemmy.worldOP
      22·
      11 months ago

      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).