• hansolo@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    To be fair, that is how averages work.

    On a bell curve half are above, half below the exact average point. If you take into account college students were exempt from the draft, you remove a chunk that’s likely mostly above the middle point. So by definition, the group leftover would be of below average intelligence, and more than 50% of people word fall below the average point.

    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Yes.

      The only thing to add is that the intelligence we are talking about here is a social construct and the numbers used to express it have specifically been adjusted to give a normal distribution (a bell curve).