This is an amusing comment because that's not how averages work.

Well, if you're talking about median it is.

And in a normal distribution--which measured attributes like height, IQ, and birth weight typically have--median, mean, and mode are all the same.

Yea and I'm sure none of them are on this thread. The self congratulatory opinions in this thread are super cringe worthy.

"Think of how stupid the median person is, and realize there's a 50% chance you're stupider than that."

Half of all people are below 'median' intelligence :P

Technically shouldn't you say "at least half of all people are at or below median"?

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist. It seemed apropos to the overall conversion. :)

>"at least half of all people are at or below median"

Take the median of

  1 2 5 5 5 5 8 9 11 23 58 46 48 37 28 67 39

Much less than half of the numbers are at or below the the median of 5.

(also median would be a bad way to get an average for this set.)

The average person (median) has less than 2 legs :-D

Nah, the median person has 2 legs, the mean person has less than 2 legs.

Ah! not sure how I confused median and mean :-/