Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 11 months agoMost tests of intelligence lands close to a bell curve. With how many different factors that can influence intelligence it seems quite likely (the average of many different distributions each with a peak in the center is likely to look like a bell curve)
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
More precisely: If you repeatedly draw values from a probability distribution and sum them up, the sum tends towards a Gaussian (central limit theorem).