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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." — George Carlin
by setopt 24d ago
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." — George Carlin
- gpt5 24d agoI think the average person is definitely intelligent. It's just that we are very prone to mixing intelligence with knowledge in addition to also forgetting how long it took us to learn things that are so automatic for us we see them as trivial.
- BartShoot 24d agoand who considers themselves to be in that lower half? Probably a lot less than half of the population
- isoprophlex 24d agoShouldn't that be the median person for the quote to actually hold?
- setopt 24d agoGiven that most measures of intelligence follow nearly normal distributions (as long as you stay away from the tails), I think it doesn’t matter that much.