TFW you see a George Carlin quote complaining about the stupidity of "average" people, and in that quote it looks like George Carlin didn't know the difference between the average person and the median person. 
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The mean person doesn’t understand the difference between average and median. George could be mean at times.
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assuming everything is a perfect Gaussian curve smh
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Yeah, and don't even get me started about the mode people
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Maybe he assumed stupidity was a normal distribution
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The median *is* an average. The arithmetic mean is a different average. So is the geometric mean (Nth root of the product). Or the harmonic mean (reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals). Carlin is perfectly correct.
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It’s the other way around. Average is a mean and it specifically stands for arithmetic mean
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In a sample that large the median and average would be the same.
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Well, he is a comedian, not a mathematician... don't expect too much from people and you will never be dissapointed
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Now that really depends on how you measure stupidity. If you use IQ then probably yes, because IQ is pretty much defined through the normal distribution. However, I would argue that for any reasonable metric (not IQ) there's a longer tail on the stupid side than the smart side.
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