Generally when people think of "average" they think of something unexceptional, but also not something inferior or inadequate. They think of some kind of middle ground. Which raise the question:
An average, after all, is not actually a median of available options, but one of available examples. If you take an intelligent person, and a stupid person and average that you'd get something in the middle. If you take an intelligent person and 100,000 stupid people, or the opposite, the average will be nowhere near the middle, instead sitting right beside the much larger group since the individual who's set apart becomes an outlier and their influence is thus minimized.
So,how high or low do you think "average intelligence" is? On a scale of 1 to 100, with 1 being someone so disadvantaged they can barely tie their own shoes, and 100 being the remarkable intellects of people like Einstein and Hawking... where do you think actual average of human intelligence falls, and why?
Do you think "average intelligence" is actually anywhere near a "middle ground"?
An average, after all, is not actually a median of available options, but one of available examples. If you take an intelligent person, and a stupid person and average that you'd get something in the middle. If you take an intelligent person and 100,000 stupid people, or the opposite, the average will be nowhere near the middle, instead sitting right beside the much larger group since the individual who's set apart becomes an outlier and their influence is thus minimized.
So,how high or low do you think "average intelligence" is? On a scale of 1 to 100, with 1 being someone so disadvantaged they can barely tie their own shoes, and 100 being the remarkable intellects of people like Einstein and Hawking... where do you think actual average of human intelligence falls, and why?
