No, but if you compliment the dumb ones they will work harder for the same amount. Making average common makes business easier.
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Aggravationstation@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
But if 50% of people are above the average, can that truly be an average?
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 2 years ago
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Median is a form of average.
Poggervania@kbin.social 2 years ago
Statisticians and smarter people, please correct me if I am wrong since my only experience is one statistics class in college, but this could be true if you have a lot of extreme outliers on the lower end than the upper end.
Averages are just that - an average. If you have 1000 people and 750 of them have IQs below 60 and the rest have “normal” IQs, then your average will skew to the lower IQs. I would wager median and mode would be better for this kind of stuff.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Only if the average is exactly equal to the median.