Re: FN-FORUM: security notification

date posted 1st January 2004 21:45

On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 2:43 am, John Anderson wrote:
> Steve said:
> >Unfortunately, conversely (and the internet proves this) there are a
> >small number of really incredibly dumb people, so probably there's les=
s
> >than 50% of people who are dumber than average :-)

Not if you're using the median...

> Yeah, I thought of that. However, no matter how dumb anyone is, his or=
her
> IQ (assuming the IQ is a reasonable measure of intelligence) is still
> measurable. On the other hand, incredibly smart people tend to be "off=
the
> scale" allowing them to skew the average.

Standard IQ tests tend to give results that fit reasonably well to a=20
Gaussian or normal distribution, where the mode, mean and median=20
coincide. Of course, this might just be because they are designed to=20
give results in a normal distribution... and as you point out, you tend
to get "outliers" at one end of the scale and not the other.

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