Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?
Hindufury@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean if it is a bell curve, even an average person is smarter than half the world. There’s a selection bias on social media because those heated and ignorant threads get memed and shared either by people who believe the nonsense or by outrage.
umulu@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do you think it is a bell curve?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Most tests of intelligence lands close to a bell curve. With how many different factors that can influence intelligence it seems quite likely (the average of many different distributions each with a peak in the center is likely to look like a bell curve)
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
More precisely: If you repeatedly draw values from a probability distribution and sum them up, the sum tends towards a Gaussian (central limit theorem).