• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Remember that half of the population is below 100 IQ

    That’s not a sensible reading of a bell curve. Roughly 70% of the population should be within one standard deviation of 100 IQ, putting them roughly on par with one another

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      3 days ago

      Both of our statements are true. Yours focuses on the fact that most people are average ish.

      If you want to fence about it though, my point is that most people are too dumb to not be force fed auch tropes.

      Call me elitist if you’d like. I don’t dislike people like that. I just understand that producers need to cater to them.

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        3 days ago

        most people are too dumb to not be force fed auch tropes.

        It has nothing to do with intelligence. We all eat from the trough of propaganda and we all have our biases. Even (perhaps especially) those of us who think we’re above it.

        Call me elitist if you’d like.

        I’d call you naive. At some point, we have the information we’re given and we can only make decisions based on that much.

        Garbage in, garage out, no matter how clever you are.

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        2 days ago

        Since statistics isn’t a standard high school course, no.

        But that’s got nothing to do with intelligence. It has to do with the typical mathematics rubric for the median member of the population.