About 50% of people are below average
The bright side is that only one person is the worst
Imagine communicating who ranked
firstlast anually on a national level lmao.Edit: I meant “last” not “first”. What a crucial mistake lol.
They do! It’s all part of the Hollywood liberal elite plot to tear down our country. Seriously, watch the credits on any movie - they always name the “best boy.”
LMAO I intended to write “last” but somehow typed the opposite. But your point is very concerning, indeed.
The problem is that “first” and “last” have no meaning unless the conditions are established — first in intelligence or first in stupidity?
Yes
“think of the average person. Now remember that half of everyone is dumber than them”
The median person*
Don’t be mean.
But 25% of all American students also scored in the top quartile on standardized tests, so it cancels out!
Plus, it’s amazing that every student at least got placed on the graph. Missing that would be shameful.
Just another example of those damn participation trophies.
Err… im not sure everyone in this thread is getting the joke?
That the bottom 25% of scorers in standardized tests are in the bottom quartile of the distribution, which is literally defined as the bottom 25%, but the Twitter user seems to be using that fact to justify something yet he’s literally just stating a fact?
The bottom 25% will always exist and there will always be 25% of the results contained within it.
Not sure how anyone doesn’t get it, but this Twitter screenshot exists, so there’s that.
Oh, sorry, this “x” exists. Dumb fucking name.
You sound like you’re at the top of the bell curve
Don’t forget that about half the population have an IQ below average
And the average IQ is already pretty low.
Good thing that IQ numbers are largely pointless.
“Money doesn’t matter” – rich people
“Look doesn’t matter” – beautiful people
“IQ doesn’t matter” – intelligent people
Edit: “IQ is important” – high IQ people
Intelligence matters. Just that IQ number is not a very good indicator of intelligence.
That’s my intended joke: intelligent people see that IQ is bullshit while high IQ people don’t (implying there is no overlap)
Poe’s law is a bitch.
How astute. You’re really top of the bell curve.
Think about how dumb the average person is. And then remember that half of them are dumber than that!
Carlin was a prophet
But he was shit at statistics. He mixes up median and mean.
Statistically, IQ follows a standard distribution, so the median and mean should be relatively close.
And you lose most of the audience when discussing median, I’m guessing there was a conscious choice to sacrifice some accuracy for comedic value
I guess the education system is really struggling …
(Also his account is satire, right?)
oh thank christ
Normal if true
If ever a reliable method for measuring actual intelligence rather than IQ is invented I imagine we’ll be seeing a somewhat lumpier graph than that smooth mean distribution curve.