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[–] 27 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Just look how stupid the average person is. Half of the people are more stupid. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The last few years have taught me that the difference between stupid and not stupid is oceans wider than I thought.

    I turns out stupid people are closer to what I thought the intelligence of an animal was.

    These people literally don’t think. They basically pattern match and that’s it. There’s no deeper reasoning. There’s no capacity for nuance, no understanding or extension of empathy. They can barely read. If you string the gibberish from an AI they’ll blindly trust that it’s correct above all evidence.

    Meanwhile we’re seeing all these nuanced multi step problem solving behaviours from birds and all animals and even bumblebees…

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I read something from someone on the internet who claimed to work with bear-proof garbage cans and apparently it’s harder than one might expect. There’s some overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.

    I’m sure the bears are more motivated, but still…

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

    I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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”.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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