Half of the people in the world are above average intelligence, and half are below. That's just the way it is, because half and average, that's what they mean.
Now, you might think right away, or maybe not, that because of that, half the people in the world are smart, and half are dumb. Or maybe that's not 'correct' enough. Maybe half are intelligent, and half are unintelligent. At least, that's what I'd think if I didn't really think about it, but that's not true. That's an abstraction of sorts.
See, if you have like a billion rocks, randomly chosen, half of them are above average quality, and half are below average quality, but until those rocks start turning into gems, they're not really worth shit. So even though half of them are above average, only a small percentage are good.
I'm not saying that only a small percentage of people are intelligent, although that's my suspicion. I'm just wondering where the breaking point is. Not just for intelligence, but for anything. You take 10 people, half of them are below average blank, and half of them are above, but how many are actually blank?
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