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Carlin had a quote for you: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that".

Before someone says “that’s median, not mean”, remember average is an ambiguous term that can mean either.

Intelligence as measured by IQ has a normal distribution, which means mean and median are the same. So Carlin was right no matter what he meant.

I’d never considered that, makes sense! Thanks!

Oh good, you are becoming self-aware