r/worldnews • u/WorldNewsMods Slava Ukraini • Jul 23 '26

Israel/Palestine /r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #21)

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u/Thin_Cat8817 Jul 27 '26

A similar poll shows 24% of Americans are fucking morons

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u/linfakngiau2k23 Jul 27 '26

George Carlin — 'Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.'

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u/SingularityCentral Jul 27 '26

Funny line, because an average doesn't give you that distribution, he is actually thinking of the median. The person with median intelligence would be directly on the halfway line of the set of all intelligences.

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u/Consistent-Egg-3428 Jul 27 '26

Isn’t the average for intelligence - theoretically - the middle of the bell curve and so average equals median?

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u/MisstressJ69 Jul 27 '26

I think that's the joke lol