• bitwaba@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      That’s not necessarily true. If 100 people take a test and 99 of them score 100 but one person gets a 0, the average score is 99. But 99 people scored 100, so 99 people are above average, and only 1 is below average.

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      2 days ago

      Closer to 2.5% are below average, 2.5% brilliant, and 95% of us are average, or imperceptibly close to average.