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You are touching my couch cushion. This is my part of the couch. Your part of the couch is over there.
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quote:Well, it is true that 50% are below average.
That is not necessarily true; it assumes that the distribution of intelligence is symmetric, which is reasonably non-obvious. Consider the number of legs a person has; clearly, the average is something like 1.99999, due to a small number of people with one or no legs. So the overwhelming majority are above average, legs-wise.
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Still, if you live in the US, you have a higher than average amount of from-Lake-Wobegon-ness.
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