[Info-vax] RIP: Dennis Ritchie (UNIX / C)

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 10/24/2011 7:24 PM, MetaEd wrote:
> On Oct 24, 4:31 pm, Phillip Helbig wrote:
>> MetaEd<met... at gmail.com>  writes:
>>> No. You can say that more than forty percent of the population has
>>> below-average intelligence. But if intelligence follows the normal
>>> distribution, then, by definition, everyone has normal intelligence.
>>
>> If intelligence follows the normal distribution then, by definition,
>> half of the population has below-average intelligence.
>
> Yes, and notice that "half" is "more than forty percent". So if it is
> true that "half" has below-average intelligence, then "forty percent"
> has below-average intelligence as well.

I hadn't thought that it required any explanation.  You learn something 
every day!