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      8 months ago

      George Carlin never fails to be accurate: Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are even stupider than that.

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        8 months ago

        He’s not accurate, though. That’d be the median person. With the average person I’d expect much more than half to be stupider than that.

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          8 months ago

          Mean, median, and mode are measures of central tendency aka average. It’s usually context that indicates which measure we are using when we say average. A lot of the time, when speaking of the average person, we’re using the median or mode rather than the mean.

          How many fingers does your average person have?