[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/15/2012 9:52 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<1-OdnT-qB951UizSnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>>
>> More than forty percent of the population have sub normal intelligence!
>> (My favorite statistic.)
>
>     I know half our students are below average, but I'm not so sure how
>     to define sub "normal".
>

If you line everybody up from smartest to dumbest the man/women in the 
middle is "normal" or "average"!  Never mind that he/she is probably 
indistinguishable from another person a million or two in either direction.

It looks shocking until you think about it.