I was serious in the sense that people aren't very smart. The part about half being below-average was a tongue-in-cheek remark (it's not even my joke either, I've seen it in one form or another online for a while).
BTW this assumes that the median and the average of the intelligence distribution are the same, which is not necessarily correct, but since everyone uses Gaussians to model intelligence I guess I can do it too :)
That was the joke.
I thought you were being serious.
I was serious in the sense that people aren't very smart. The part about half being below-average was a tongue-in-cheek remark (it's not even my joke either, I've seen it in one form or another online for a while).
BTW this assumes that the median and the average of the intelligence distribution are the same, which is not necessarily correct, but since everyone uses Gaussians to model intelligence I guess I can do it too :)