• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    That the bottom 25% of scorers in standardized tests are in the bottom quartile of the distribution, which is literally defined as the bottom 25%, but the Twitter user seems to be using that fact to justify something yet he’s literally just stating a fact?

    The bottom 25% will always exist and there will always be 25% of the results contained within it.

    Not sure how anyone doesn’t get it, but this Twitter screenshot exists, so there’s that.

    Oh, sorry, this “x” exists. Dumb fucking name.

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        1 year ago

        But have you considered that a whopping 25% of satire posts are in the bottom quartile on the funniness bell curve?

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          “Money doesn’t matter” – rich people

          “Look doesn’t matter” – beautiful people

          “IQ doesn’t matter” – intelligent people

          Edit: “IQ is important” – high IQ people

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              That’s my intended joke: intelligent people see that IQ is bullshit while high IQ people don’t (implying there is no overlap)

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      You sound like you’re at the top of the bell curve