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But if 50% of people are above the average, can that truly be an average?

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Only if the average is exactly equal to the median.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Median is a form of average

Average can mean mean, median, or mode

[-] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No, but if you compliment the dumb ones they will work harder for the same amount. Making average common makes business easier.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any percent can be above average(as long as its not 100%) if there are exteme outliers. For example the average us income is $60k while the median(the most common) is 30k. Source: i just searched it. But you get it. In this memes case its incorrect because iq is a bell curve.

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Median isn't most common, that would be mode. Median is the "middle" value i.e. the value that half of the population are above and half are below.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Median is a form of average.

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Statisticians and smarter people, please correct me if I am wrong since my only experience is one statistics class in college, but this could be true if you have a lot of extreme outliers on the lower end than the upper end.

Averages are just that - an average. If you have 1000 people and 750 of them have IQs below 60 and the rest have “normal” IQs, then your average will skew to the lower IQs. I would wager median and mode would be better for this kind of stuff.

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