• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I mean, by definition half of the countries will be below average. It’s a normal distribution— literally by definition since the distribution is set that way.

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      16 hours ago

      Could it be possible that the author was making a joke, and the people who don’t get it are the dumb ones?

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        13 hours ago

        On TIL? A shitpost, sure it’s possible, but I see people not understand averages pretty regularly.