Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.

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    29 days ago

    Carlin already explained this phenomenon before he died.

    Think about how dumb the average person is. Then consider the fact that half of all people are even dumber than that!

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      29 days ago

      You’d have to find the median, not the average, in order to have one-half dumber and one-half smarter.

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        28 days ago

        The median is an average. Mean, median, and mode are all considered forms of averages.

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          17 days ago

          I have heard this argument before. In the US and way back when I was in school, it was taught that “sum of numeric data points divided by number of data points” == average == mean. The rest were taught as “also statistically relevant functions depending on the type of data”. Semantics of a joke based on another joke. 😅

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        27 days ago

        IQ scores, by definition, are forced into a Gaussian distribution, which is symmetric, so the mean is the same as the median.

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          17 days ago

          True! Although, I’m under the impression that IQ score is not how smart a person is, but their potential capacity for learning? We can argue semantics of a joke based on a joke all day, any day. 🤓