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Originally Posted by Autopilot
Actually only 16% of people are below average intelligences, 68% are of average intelligence and only the top 2% and bottom 2% are considered either fucking smart or fucking retarded respectively. It's called standard deviation.
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Yes, but if people are becoming dumber every year the average will move lower and the standard deviations will remain the same. Having an 'average intelligence std dev' is meh in my opinion. The people at the bottom of that curve are still borderline below average intelligence.
And as people have been saying in this thread, you seem to meet a lot of people on the lower end of the curve. Maybe its because you remember them more than the smarter cookies.