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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can't speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh crap. Translating average to my language yields the same word as mean. But you're right.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

What they mean is that all three are different kinds of averaging. This is correct, but I don't think people in general think 'median' when they hear 'average'

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering intelligence/stupidity isn't defined, it's a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t totally disagree, I’ve never seen an actual distribution of random iq scores

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

And there's plenty of criticism of IQ tests as a proxy for intelligence, even if we did have the data.