That's not how averages work :)

Yes, but we all understood the essence of what he meant and he's right. Why be a stickler about it.

Stupid pro-AI sentiment bridgading, by the ones who don't like being told that they're below-average because they think AI can do better than they can.

Meanwhile, those with a whole brain realise the idiocy of the whole premise and stay well away.

Is it brigading if people just have the opinion that AI can do well at software?

Only half of them.

Median

Human intelligence roughly follows a normal distribution where the median is the same as the mean. In that sense OP was correct that half of the population are below average.