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Monday, May 5th, 2008 07:43 pm

There are a lot of very sharp, bright people out there.

Unfortunate corollary¹:  There are a lot of depressingly stupid people out there.

[1]  Thanks to the law of averages.

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 01:30 am (UTC)
Graham's law: If the average IQ is 100, half the people you meet are walking around with double digits.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 05:28 am (UTC)
"Graham's law: If the average IQ is 100, half the people you meet are walking around with double digits."

You've made multiple errors:

1. You're confusing average with median. Depending on the distribution, more than half could be on either side of the average.

2. Even if it were a balanced distribution with median at 100, some of the population would be at exactly 100. This means there would be less than half on either side.

3. Graham's law states that the rate of diffusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its molecular weight.

:-P
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 11:17 am (UTC)
1. You're confusing average with median. Depending on the distribution, more than half could be on either side of the average.
Well, yeah, technically speaking. But the majority of the studies seem to say we are looking at pretty much an ideal Gaussian distribution in this case.

And I think you're referencing different Grahams. :)