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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t totally disagree, I’ve never seen an actual distribution of random iq scores

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

And there's plenty of criticism of IQ tests as a proxy for intelligence, even if we did have the data.