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Yep, but those two routes around capes can be disrupted too, which may cause advantage for those, who are not using them. Then it will be easy to plant the mess
by oneshtein 3y ago
Yep, but those two routes around capes can be disrupted too, which may cause advantage for those, who are not using them. Then it will be easy to plant the message into brains of those 50% who have less than average IQ: "Blame your government for this sudden spike in prices! Vote for those, who want to protect us, not foreigners!"
- rtpg 3y agoaside because everyone who makes that comment seems to get it wrong: 50% of the population has less than the median IQ, not the average!
- oneshtein 3y agoWe cannot rank all the people and put their IQ into a sorted array to calculate median, so some of us accept loss of precision when we use average numbers.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> because everyone who makes that comment seems to get it wrong: 50% of the population has less than the median IQ, not the average! What's the mistake? It's a normal distribution; the average is equal to the median.
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoThe median itself is a type of an average, too, regardless of the distribution. We have many averages to choose from
- rtpg 3y agoTIL that people talk about the median as a kind of average. Guess I’ll stop making the remark then!
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoMean, median and mode are the three most commonly used averages. Mean itself can be of various types, such as arithmetic, geometric, harmonic and others. Median is a pretty good average because it excludes the extremes. Its 'superiority' compared to the arithmetic mean is can be easily explained by a hypothetical situation where you have 100 people and 99 of them are making $1000 a month while only one making $100000. The arithmetic average salary of this whole group is $1990 a month which is clearly not what most people would intuitively consider as the 'proper' average.
- tomjakubowski 3y agoYou know what they mean.