Why are these people so damn retarded
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"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.