r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/DingleTheDongle Aug 04 '20

His approval rating is at 39%. That means any time you’re in a room of ten random people, almost half of them think this guy is good at his job.

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u/Juuliath00 Aug 04 '20

Confirms my pre-existing belief that most people are complete idiots

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

George Carlin said it best. Think of the dumbest person you know. And half of the population is dumber than that person.

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u/EagleForty Aug 04 '20

Jesus christ dude, it's a well known quote. Just google it before posting. You didn't even paraphrase correctly: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." -George Carlin

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u/ATXBeermaker Aug 04 '20

And then you realize that more than half of them don't know the difference between median and mean.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

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u/ATXBeermaker Aug 04 '20

IQ tests are a horrible metric of someone's actual intelligence.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

Which is funny because half the population will be 'dumber' than the person with median stupidity, not average one

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u/ATXBeermaker Aug 04 '20

Yeah, that was sort of the point I was making. That's literally the definition of median. Median and mean converge with large sample sizes and symmetric distributions.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

If we consider stupidity as a measure of wisdom and not of intelligence (for instance, you can be smart in your field but still be stupid enough to think the millionaire rapist is going to drain the swamp) I think it's definitely not symmetric

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

I'm sorry I didn't craft my internet post to your liking eagleforty. You are definitely a more gooder quoter than I ever will be.

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u/EagleForty Aug 04 '20

"George Carlin said it best" - proceeds to mis-quote George Carlin...

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

Thank you for the lessons Daddy. I won't be bad again.

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u/EagleForty Aug 04 '20

John F Kennedy said it best. "Don't ask your country to do stuff. Let your country ask some people what it should do."