Author Topic: Worrying Statistic (Read 454 times)

Brockett · « **on:** January 20, 2025, 00:10:53 »

50% of the population is of below average intelligence - can that be true?

Gert · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2025, 06:49:42 »

Good question

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #2 on:** January 20, 2025, 10:48:38 »

Logic says 49.9%. Have you been listening to LBC Brockett? There was a bloke on James O'Brien show wanted to know where he got that 'statistic' from.

Upt North · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2025, 12:23:45 »

Are we talking the world or the far North of Essex.
Upt.

The Doctor 46 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2025, 20:57:08 »

50% of the population is of below average intelligence - can that be true?

I really don't know, I'm in the bottom 5% and know very little.

Dark-Strom · « **Reply #5 on:** January 26, 2025, 12:59:16 »

I blame rider aids and electric vehicles

The Doctor 46 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 26, 2025, 14:11:02 »

I blame the Russians, they get blamed for everything. The word for bad people used to be Communism but now it seems to be Russia. Maybe being treated as bad by much of the world makes them hard?

TLPower · « **Reply #7 on:** January 27, 2025, 08:22:53 »

Brockett, have a look at the KTM.UK forum and your statistic is looking on the brighter side of things.

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #8 on:** January 27, 2025, 10:01:18 »

TLP, that must always be the exception to the rule!

Hugo Magnus · « **Reply #9 on:** January 27, 2025, 10:55:41 »

I think what is more amazing is by extrapolation 50% of the population is above average intelligence.

Brockett · « **Reply #10 on:** January 27, 2025, 15:10:30 »

Yeah! that's the thing about averages, they are always in the middle.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #11 on:** January 27, 2025, 16:31:49 »

Well, you say that, Brockett, but.......

mr_diver · « **Reply #12 on:** January 27, 2025, 19:17:58 »

Quote from: Hugo Magnus on January 27, 2025, 10:55:41

I think what is more amazing is by extrapolation 50% of the population is above average intelligence.

Forsted Gump was considdered only a little south of the average intelegence

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #13 on:** January 27, 2025, 19:36:20 »

Too many of you are obviously above 'average' inteligence.

Rookie · « **Reply #14 on:** January 27, 2025, 19:51:58 »

Who was it that said. There's lies, damn lies and statistics. They might of had a point.

Brockett · « **Reply #15 on:** January 28, 2025, 08:58:15 »

In the war between knowledge and belief, statistics can be a useful weapon against opinion.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #16 on:** January 28, 2025, 18:10:50 »

I knew I had it in the archive somewhere.....only took 171 pages to find.

Rookie · « **Reply #17 on:** January 28, 2025, 18:36:06 »

Perfect

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #18 on:** January 28, 2025, 18:49:08 »

"Punch" magazine, 1935.

endintears · « **Reply #19 on:** January 28, 2025, 19:36:56 »

Rather annoyingly as those below average manage to increase their achievements to get closer to it the average goes up

Maybe an alternative strategy is to shoot all the smart arses.
Some of us might even become above average without doing a thing.