• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Think for a moment how stupid the average person is…Then realise that half the population is dumber than that. - George Carlin

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      1 year ago

      The problem is that most people overestimate the average person too.

      So it’s more like “imagine the average person, and realize around 70% of the population is dumber than that.”

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            1 year ago

            I parse the sentence differently then. The subject is the “average person”, not the “average person’s intelligence”.