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Old Wed Feb 09, 2011, 04:27pm
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Originally Posted by archangel View Post
Half of all people are below average in intelligence.
Not necessarily. That would be true of the median if there were an odd number of people in the world at any given moment. But, it could be true that smarter people pull the mean [average] up, which would result in more than half being below average. The reverse also could be true.
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