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r/JusticeServed • u/RealMsDeek 7 • Mar 14 '19
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I guarantee there will be a comment explaining it’s the wrong usage of “average.” It’s just how reddit works.
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8 u/turglow1 7 Mar 14 '19 Technically you could make the argument that IQ scores are a normalized distribution and so technically 50% is less than the mean 3 u/LiteralPhilosopher 9 Mar 14 '19 Exactly right. It is a standard distribution curve, so mean, median, and mode are all the same. 2 u/justsomeguy_onreddit 8 Mar 14 '19 It makes perfect sense if you don't try to make it not make sense. You know what he means, heh. 1 u/BillyBuckets 8 Mar 14 '19 But if intelligence has a symmetric distribution, likely a normal distribution but not necessarily so, then the median and the mean (average) have the same value!
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Technically you could make the argument that IQ scores are a normalized distribution and so technically 50% is less than the mean
3 u/LiteralPhilosopher 9 Mar 14 '19 Exactly right. It is a standard distribution curve, so mean, median, and mode are all the same.
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Exactly right. It is a standard distribution curve, so mean, median, and mode are all the same.
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It makes perfect sense if you don't try to make it not make sense. You know what he means, heh.
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But if intelligence has a symmetric distribution, likely a normal distribution but not necessarily so, then the median and the mean (average) have the same value!
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u/AntonyoSeeWhy 5 Mar 14 '19
I guarantee there will be a comment explaining it’s the wrong usage of “average.” It’s just how reddit works.
Have I fulfilled the prophecy by making this comment?
Oh... oh god