• foggy@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    It is at this moment I would like to remind everyone that 100 is the average IQ, which necessarily means that half of the people that walk among us are rocking double digit IQs.

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      5 hours ago

      No, 100 is the median IQ, but that doesn’t preclude there being a lot of people with exactly 100 IQ. Thus there would be less than half of the population below 100 (and also less than half above 100).

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      6 hours ago

      It’s not necessarily half. There could be a group that is a fair bit less than half, but are so dumb they throw the averages off.

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      6 hours ago

      Sure, but the poll itself is already dumb. Why poll opinions on a fact? It implies there’s any actual value or some truth to this.

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        48 minutes ago

        Because very often people vote based on how they feel and that does not always align with the facts

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        6 hours ago

        Something can be a fact and a belief at the same time. E.G. some people believe the moon landing was faked or that the Earth is flat. It’s a fact that the cost of living was lower under Biden yet some people believe that it’s lower under Trump. Those people are just as crazy as the flat Earthers, and yet they still exist. The real concerning thing is how many of them there are though. The fact that it’s not something like 1% or fewer that believes Trump is better is really concerning but sadly not surprising. Your average Trump supporter is really dumb and ignorant.

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        5 hours ago

        Because for some people it can be cheaper, especially if they moved. So, the poll sheds light on for how many people are their lives more or less expensive even if on average we know most prices went up for most products.