Think of how stupid the average person is...

[kyrgizion@lemmy.world]

This is allegedly also why true geniuses suffer. Imagine being smarter than 95% of people and being keenly aware of it.

[neilbru@lemmy.world]

Most people are too dumb to even realize that they're dumb.

[marcos@lemmy.world]

Most people are way above (possibly in the top 1%) the average in a bunch of things.

[miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I see what you did their.

[miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I met this Dunning guy who told me about Keurig but Nespresso is better.

[majormajormajormajor@lemmy.ca]

That's my secret cap, I'm always dumb.

[norin@lemmy.world]

This is just Socrates.

[clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world]

The people who are "keenly aware of it" always smell like they pissed on their pants zipper.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Just saying this proactively: Half the people are dumber than the Median, not the Average.

[jackgreenearth@lemm.ee]

A median is an average. So are the mean and mode.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Median and average are used interchangeably in colloquial speech, but incorrectly - the median is the exact middle value of all data values. The average is the value all data points would have if they were all equal.

[razorozx@lemm.ee]

They're*

[user224@lemmy.sdf.org]

*There're

[miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Thayer?*

[randomdude@lemm.ee]

There'ir

[triflingtoad@sh.itjust.works]

I'm in my schools gifted program. That means you need an IQ in the top 10% (iirc) and tbh nobody there thinks that they're smart. Literally everyone there is a dumbass who thinks in numbers slightly more often than non gifted kids.
Also add on top the statistical likelihood to be autistic/ADHD (twice exceptional is very common btw) and it's just a normal class where those 2 or 3 kids who constantly yell/act up aren't there and on Fridays the teacher lets you make a windmill out of a paper plate, old paint brushes, and air dry clay. Last year the teacher accidentally made the finals answers all A. Tbh I'm just in it for my resume.

[tal@lemmy.today]

This statement is not true for cases where more than one person has average intelligence.

[thews@lemmy.world]

Did I ever tell you the story about
Cowboys, and m-midgets, and the Indians and fron-frontier psychiatrist?
I-I-I felt strangely hypnotised
I was in another world, a world of twenty-twenty thousand girls

[thews@lemmy.world]

Did I ever tell you the story about
[Cowboys], and [m-midgets], and the Indians and fron-frontier psychiatrist?
[I-I-I felt strangely hypnotised
I was in another world], a world of twenty-[twenty thousand girls]

[wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I've long said (and this is a hill that I'm willing to die on) that everyone is smart in some way. We're all just smart about different things and in different ways.