Think about how dumb the average person is. And then remember that half of them are dumber than that!
Yes but I don’t know who the average person is, maybe I know a lot of dumber than average people!
Err… im not sure everyone in this thread is getting the joke?
Poe’s law is a bitch.
Small head: He’s proving his point really well.
Big head: He’s proving his point really well.100% of people who have committed a murder have drunk DiHydrogen Monoxide within the last two weeks, do you feel safe giving this to your children?
It’s toxic and can lead to DEATH if inhaled! Big if true!
But 25% of all American students also scored in the top quartile on standardized tests, so it cancels out!
Plus, it’s amazing that every student at least got placed on the graph. Missing that would be shameful.
Just another example of those damn participation trophies.
I can’t tell if you are joking. You must be, but it reads too sincerely.
You could even call it a New Sincerity.
I’ve been told I have deadpan delivery sometimes. I guess it translates to my comments too.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing. But yes, I’m keeping with the tone set by the comment above me.
Are memes just straight screenshots of Twitter now?
I mean I’ll be the first to admit agenda posting, but at least I be posting memes…
Agenda posting? What is this, PCM?
This is satire.
This is officially the second dumbest take on the value of a quarter.
I knew a person who thought quarter to six meant 5:35 because “how many cents in a quarter dumbass.”
Wait…what? I’m struggling to comprehend this level of nonsense.
Quarter=25 cents. 25 minutes before six=5:35. And also OP is making it up, because no one that stupid is also doing extra math.
No no, I’ve met them. I work with them. They mostly end up in HR
“You worked an extra 15 minutes today so you’ll get paid 8.15 hours”
I mean you’re not far of. If I clock out 7 minutes late, I get 0 extra hours, if I clock out 8 minutes late, I get paid for 15 minutes and a stern taking to about clocking out on time.
That’s a very particular flavor of dumb lol.
Smart enough to put two and two together, not smart enough to realize that may not apply to every situation.
Technically, if everyone gets the full mark, no one will be in the bottom quartile.
Also, everyone would be in the bottom quartile. The definitions fall apart when you collapse the probability function.
He couldn’t be more right. Absolutely appalling.
If ever a reliable method for measuring actual intelligence rather than IQ is invented I imagine we’ll be seeing a somewhat lumpier graph than that smooth mean distribution curve.
No, this is how a graph showing quartiles will always look because quartiles, by definition, always include a fixed percentage of the studied population under them.
In this case the lower quartile will always have 25% of the population under it, 50% under the second quartile, and 75% under the third quartile.
Quartiles break a population into 4 equal portions.
While that’s true, the actual empirical curve does not have to be smooth. Or gaussian.
Spendrill is not misunderstanding the OP. He’s just saying that if intelligence could be measured by a better metric, then distribution of that metric among the population would not look as smooth as the one in the OP.
I know what this graph is, I was talking about a graph that actually showed something useful. If you’ve got a couple of hours to learn something useful then you could do worse than to look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo
Is there a c/woosh?
Is there a c/IGotTheJokeJustWantedToMakeAGeneralPointAboutTheArtificialityOfIntelligenceQuotients
I swear if all the snide little pricks come over from reddit too I am going to have to abandon Lemmy also.
Lol. People read your comment and think you didn’t understand the original post. When in reality they are the ones who didn’t understand your comment.
I’m sure Lemmy wasn’t like this a month ago. What I was enjoying is that someone would make a post and then you could start a conversation that wasn’t strictly on topic just have an interesting talk about the general subject.
The worst thing about social networks is the people. Maybe we could just use ai to generate every response, fine tuned to the kind of conversation you specifically want. Yeah that’ll fix it.
The worst thing about social networks is some of the people. Generally, they’re fine. Same in real life.
It would almost certainly follow an approximate normal distribution just like the above graph. Why would it look different?
It’s amazing you used standardized test stats, while I believe the test are part of the problem. When I was in school, you learned the subject, and the standardized test was a decent level. Now, all the subjects are should be called reading comprehension, because that’s how they teach. Teachers are held to teach their students how to pass the test. Extra school funds are tied to percentages based on test scores. So they pass out, and teach off of, worksheets that are mirrored off of these test. So they don’t teach science, hey teach you to answer the multiple choice questions after reading about science. Everytime my kids bring homework home i ask them if all of their work is like this, this being reading comprehension worksheets, and they say “pretty much”.
My favorite example of how broken it is is from my Senior year in high school.
The test used for funding at time was the TAAS (Texas Assessment of Academic Skills). It was insultingly easy. I aced the High School Exit Exam version of it it in 4th grade. But EVERYTHING in school was about that test.
We actually took the real test in 10th grade, so everyone had extra chances if they failed it. If you didn’t pass, you were placed in special classes that focused even MORE heavily on it so you could try again the next semester. In order to take any AP courses after 10th, you had to have already passed the test. In my English IV AP courses, every student in the class had gotten a perfect score on the exam 2 years earlier.
They still made us practice it weekly. We had block scheduling, so “weekly” was 40% of all class meetings. Why did we have to keep practicing for a test we’d already aced? Because they wanted to the teacher to practice having the students practice.
We never practiced for the SAT.
My brother on christ, that is at best a third, not a quarter
Woosh He just said the top 25% is as smart as the top 25% and the bottom 25% is as smart as the bottom 25%…
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Refusing to invest in education makes it worse!? shocked Pikachu
Read it again.
