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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/15/2012 7:35 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> If you line everybody up from smartest to dumbest the man/women in the
>> middle is "normal" or "average"!
>
> However, I like Mr VAXman's argument that if 90% of people are using
> Windows, one really couldn't state that fewer than 50% of people are
> below average intelligence.
>
> Case in point: you could have 9 windows users with intelligence of "1"
> and 1 person on a Mac with intelligence of "10". The average
> intelligence is 1.9 which means that 90% are below average.

What Richard was talking about is called median.

Arne