Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> Well, yes, his point is correct in this case because he's crafted a small 
> sample size that actually does bear out his assertion.

  My point was that people tend to think that "the average IQ is 100"
automatically implies that half of the people will be below that and the
other half above it. That's obviously not the case. It depends on the
actual distribution of the samples (iow. if the distribution is asymmetric
around the average, then less than half of people will be on one side and
the rest on the other).

  It just sounded like this misconception was being touted in this thread.

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