The Idiocy of the Average – and Why It Matters (2018)

Indeed.

Consider the average IQ of the state of California: 95.5

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-...

The implications of the Bell curve is that half of the population is dumber having an IQ<95.5! And the majority of the area under that curve is of course below IQ-100.

And Massachusetts is equally ABOVE 100 as California is below at IQ=104.3

How many people associate California with intelligence and "right thinking"? Clearly this is a wrong assumption in every objective sense.