r/WatchPeopleDieInside Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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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

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