On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:09:12 -0400, knuttle
wrote:

On 9/27/2013 11:20 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:33:59 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

On 9/27/2013 7:19 PM, Swingman wrote:
Sum Ting Wong ... you must not own a TV, or drive on a freeway in the
increasingly urban environments, eh?

By definition, 50% of the people fall on the left side of bell curve as
far as smarts, and 50% of those are way dumber than that ... IOW, why
Springer, Kardashian, Honey BB, et al, and reality TV are so highly
popular.

+1

Or an other way of saying it is "50% of the people are less that average
intelligence."

...and the other half are suspect.

That ones has gotten me in a lot of trouble. However whatever anyone
thinks it is absolutely true.

If they question it that shows what side of average they are on

Well, there is a difference between "mean" and "average". ;-)

On mega statistical populations of an open variable they become equal.

Only if the distribution is normal (and symmetrical).