Why are these people so damn retarded
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Because most of the population are essentially retarded.
That's how the math works with regards to average IQ. The majority of people fall below this average.
And that's why universal sufferage was a mistake.
Props for understanding the real problem.
Let me guess, we should ban women from voting and beat up women who whore themselves out on Tiktok...
Why not just convert to islam as that point? Thats where the far right is headed anyways.
Nice false dichotomy, faggot. There's a reason why normies like you were peasants for most of history.
Stop! I can only get so hard! lol
Well, roughly 50%, not the majority.
And the most important fact of that stat:
Every single person thinks they are the ones in the upper half, and everyone else is in that bottom half.
"the majority" doesn't fall below average. The literal definition of "average" prevents that to be true.
Same with "most of" unless your definition of retarded includes people with above average iq.
Average is not median
The median is an average
So is the arithmetic mean
So is the geometric mean
Referring to the median as “the average” is completely appropriate, especially as it pertains to IQ and other things reckoned in terms of estimates of population-level statistics.
I can’t say categorically that the distribution of intelligence is symmetric, but there isn’t a very strong reason to assume it’s especially skewed like there is with—say—individual income, where there’s no hard limit to how above-average you can be, but there is a clear barrier to how below-average you can be (zero income). This is why “median” incomes are specifically identified as such… it matters in that context, but in many other contexts it simply doesn’t matter whether you are referring to the median or the arithmetic mean when you say “average.”
You can just say you're innumerate, you don't have to go into detail.