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TomSwirly t1_iz12jks wrote

> Most people are below average, that's how averages tend to distribute.

Mathematician here. No, this is not how averages work.

It depends entirely on the shape of the distribution. In a perfect normal curve, half the population is below and half above the average, otherwise it depends on which direction the distribution is skewed.

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savedposts456 t1_iz0ytup wrote

Yes and half of people are below the median and half are above. You just defined one cherry picked statistics related word. That means nothing.

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