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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In the words of J. R. “Bob” Dobbs, “You know how dumb the average guy is? Well, by definition, half of ‘em are even dumber than that”

[–] ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

not how averages work but probs cuz there's a lot of people to bakance out... ig.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How smart would you bet on the median guy being?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Judging from another post about an engineer that blasted through a test out of spite, got put into some training and had a print with the test showing his score of 80, which was "smarter than 90%", that makes me think the average is sitting somewhere close to 70

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm willing to bet it's 100 IQ

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

In the US its 98