Eero Ahonen wrote:
> So... If we have 4 men, with intelligences 1, 8, 9 and 9, the average is 
> (1+8+9+9)/4=6,75, so 75% of men are more intelligent than average person 
> (who, if he existed, would be over 6 times as intelligent as the dumpest 
> one).

I usually drop the outliers (top and bottom quartiles) first.  That 
would leave us with (8+9)/2=8.5 average, with an even 50% split :)

...Chambers

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