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Actually, wrong: that's called the median (they are the same for distributions which are symmetric around the average like the normale distribution, but not in

Actually, wrong: that's called the median (they are the same for distributions which are symmetric around the average like the normale distribution, but not in the general case) EDIT: not "only" symmetric

talaketu 13y ago
(not necessarily symmetric)
- danmaz74 13y ago
  You're right... fixed
foobarbazqux 13y ago
Usually the word average means arithmetic mean, but the median is also an average. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
crgt 13y ago
Actually, average can mean median, mode or mean. I was using (I thought obviously..but perhaps not) the median definition. The point stands - it's odd to say that the problem here is that half the people are of below average intelligence. Since that's (roughly) what you'd expect. The problem instead is that our "rights" are treated as privileges that can be revoked when the powers that be deem it convenient. Our rights should be rights regardless of our intelligence. Though perhaps the responsibility for securing those rights falls most heavily upon the cleverest among us..in which case the problem isn't that there are folks of below average intelligence, it's that those particularly blessed with keen minds aren't doing enough to defend the rights of us all.
- danmaz74 13y ago
  Ok, sorry - I just learned that average is used as a synonym for arithmetic mean only in "colloquial language" - I thought it was actually a synonym (probably because in my mother language average is translated to the the word "media", that is "mean"). My mistake.
jlgreco 13y ago
All modern IQ tests that I am aware of have normal distributions (ie, the mean, median, and mode are all the same) by design. If one of several IQ measures is not your cup of tea for scoring mental ability, that is fine, but I highly suspect that whatever you pick instead will also have a normal distribution.

talaketu 13y ago

(not necessarily symmetric)

danmaz74 13y ago
You're right... fixed

foobarbazqux 13y ago

Usually the word average means arithmetic mean, but the median is also an average. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average

crgt 13y ago

Actually, average can mean median, mode or mean. I was using (I thought obviously..but perhaps not) the median definition. The point stands - it's odd to say that the problem here is that half the people are of below average intelligence. Since that's (roughly) what you'd expect. The problem instead is that our "rights" are treated as privileges that can be revoked when the powers that be deem it convenient. Our rights should be rights regardless of our intelligence. Though perhaps the responsibility for securing those rights falls most heavily upon the cleverest among us..in which case the problem isn't that there are folks of below average intelligence, it's that those particularly blessed with keen minds aren't doing enough to defend the rights of us all.

danmaz74 13y ago
Ok, sorry - I just learned that average is used as a synonym for arithmetic mean only in "colloquial language" - I thought it was actually a synonym (probably because in my mother language average is translated to the the word "media", that is "mean"). My mistake.

jlgreco 13y ago

All modern IQ tests that I am aware of have normal distributions (ie, the mean, median, and mode are all the same) by design. If one of several IQ measures is not your cup of tea for scoring mental ability, that is fine, but I highly suspect that whatever you pick instead will also have a normal distribution.