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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

Michigan, USA
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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 5 Nov 2018

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted digby

    As much as I loved George, every time I hear this joke I think: Median, not average.https://twitter.com/digby56/status/1059606151451398144 …

    David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

    digby @digby56
    “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin https://nyti.ms/2QgZb4O 
    5:15 PM - 5 Nov 2018
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      2. Luke  🗝️‏ @SomeDudeInCA 5 Nov 2018
        Replying to @gorskon

        But what does this MEAN??

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      3. Roddy Lamoureux  🏴‍☠️ Le Dauphin  🐬‏ @LamoureuxRM 5 Nov 2018
        Replying to @SomeDudeInCA @gorskon

        He MODE you already

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      1. Clay Jones‏ @SBMPediatrics 5 Nov 2018
        Replying to @gorskon

        It is probably best not to think too hard about this joke, which does dip its toe a bit into shaming the cognitively impaired. It would have worked better if he had more clearly implied he was talking about common sense rather than intelligence.

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      1. John Johnson, coinventer of neutral networks  😐- 😐‏ @randomjohn 5 Nov 2018
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        You're not normal!

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      1. MTL says please get vaxxed when you can!‏ @MTL613 5 Nov 2018
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        More than half (~68%) are within one standard deviation of the mean.

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      2. Brian Urbancic‏ @SciGroupie 5 Nov 2018
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        But doesn't intelligence do a decent job of falling into a normal distribution?

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      3. Adam Wex‏ @AdamWex52 6 Nov 2018
        Replying to @SciGroupie @gorskon

        I don’t think there’s an agreed-upon metric for intelligence, but initially that’s what I was thinking. Then again, it just needs to be symmetrically distributed, not necessarily normal.

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