50% OF POPULATION BELOW AVG IQ!
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From: T Wake on 13 Jan 2006 16:12 "Mark Martin" <qed100(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1137182481.976302.134140(a)o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... > > T Wake wrote: > >> By the way - have you scared Nick away? > > Oh, I wish I could claim credit. But my guess is that he's just > doing what all the other cranks do: They go at it gung-ho for a few > weeks or months, then disappear for a while, then reappear spouting the > exact same suff as every other time. Spaceman, for example, is just now > returning after a lengthy hiatus, and is proceeding exactly as > projected. > That's a shame. :-) The newsgroup was getting so quiet I even took Don1 out of my kill file to see if he had anything new to post. Sadly, he hasn't. I think I found the book the Nick was using to base all his theories on. It is called "Hawking for Beginners" and reading through it I can see how he was getting all wound up on things like the No Boundary Proposal and his big favourite "energyless light." (It is an OLD book though - from around 1996, the copy in my library was very beaten)
From: tadchem on 13 Jan 2006 16:49 "Schoenfeld" <schoenfeld1(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1137158295.555391.180810(a)g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > George Hammond wrote: > > > 50% of the human race is below average intelligence. > > Must be a pretty big variance in that sample.. The people who know the difference between an 'average' and the 'median' in a statistical context are in the upper 50% - i.e. those *above* the median - and certainly do not include the OP. Tom Davidson Richmond, VA
From: George Hammond on 13 Jan 2006 18:17 "tadchem" <tadchemNOSPAM(a)comcast.net> wrote in message news:17GdnT5FoZyGuFXeRVn-uQ(a)comcast.com... > > "Schoenfeld" <schoenfeld1(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1137158295.555391.180810(a)g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >> >> George Hammond wrote: >> >> > 50% of the human race is below average intelligence. >> >> Must be a pretty big variance in that sample.. > > The people who know the difference between an 'average' and the 'median' > in > a statistical context are in the upper 50% - i.e. those *above* the > median - > and certainly do not include the OP. > > > Tom Davidson > Richmond, VA > > [Hammond] The OP is aware that IQ is normally distributed in the population a fact that has been known for 75 years... and therefore the mean, "average", and the median are all identical, namely = 100. -- ======================================== SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF GOD WEBSITE http://geocities.com/scientific_proof_of_god mirror site: http://proof-of-god.freewebsitehosting.com ========================================
From: George Hammond on 13 Jan 2006 18:23 "T Wake" <taswakeAt(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:yK-dnYZhsbZSilXeRVnyhw(a)pipex.net... > > "Mark Martin" <qed100(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:1137182481.976302.134140(a)o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... >> >> T Wake wrote: >> >>> By the way - have you scared Nick away? >> >> Oh, I wish I could claim credit.>> > > That's a shame. :-) [Hammond] hey... get your private off topic conversation off this thread..... between the two of you you don't have a phuckiin brain in your head... and neither of you has EVER said anything of relevance or interest to anyone. Now screw! -- ======================================== SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF GOD WEBSITE http://geocities.com/scientific_proof_of_god mirror site: http://proof-of-god.freewebsitehosting.com ========================================
From: Charles on 13 Jan 2006 18:33
Seems unlikely to me. With as many people as there are in the sample, at least some should be right on the average, which would leave fewer than 50% to be either above or below. But then, that's just me. |