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I always laugh at this saying, because whoever came up with it obviously does not know how averages work  :ph34r:

Well if you consider intelligence/stupidity to be accurately measured by IQ then the median and the average(mean) should be pretty much identical because it follows a normal distribution which is symmetric. (or if you just assume that intelligence, regardless of how you measure it, follows a normal distribution then you get the same result).

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Well if you consider intelligence/stupidity to be accurately measured by IQ then the median and the average(mean) should be pretty much identical because it follows a normal distribution which is symmetric. (or if you just assume that intelligence, regardless of how you measure it, follows a normal distribution then you get the same result).

 

 

But... the distribution is not exactly symmetrical when you look at intelligence (and no self respecting industrial psychologist uses IQ as a measure anymore). But anyway, you get what I meant.

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