Former President Donald Trump urged members of a crowd in Florida to vote and said that if he wins, they âwonât have to vote anymore.â
Speaking at a Turning Point Action event in West Palm Beach on Friday, Trump, who tried to overturn the 2020 election he lost, delivered a cryptic message.
âAnd again, Christians, get out and vote!â he said to a cheering audience. âJust this time. You wonât have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? Itâll be fixed! Itâll be fine! You wonât have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! Iâm a Christian. I love you. Get out. You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you donât have to vote again.â
Median would be the more generally correct number to use, but apparently IQ (debatable as a proxy for intelligenceâŠ) is roughly normally distributed, so either is likely close enough.
Oh yeah, they normalize IQ every year, and 100 is always used as the median.
But thanks to the Flynn Effect, getting a 100 (the number they always choose for the middle) in 2024 means youâre significantly smarter than someone who got a 100 in 1990.
So when Carlin said, âthink of a person with average intelligenceâ he was calling to mind (to his 1990 audience) a person who was average in 1990 but would score [EDIT: I originally said 70s to 80s, but I was off by a lot. Such a person would actually score right around 90 points] today.
This is what happens when you take the lead out of gasoline.
A person would only drop a couple points over time. 80s, and especially 70s, would be significantly impaired.
Yeah, I ended up looking up the actual Flynn effect numbers AFTER leaving my comment, and had to edit because I was way off.
The word average is used to signify mean, median or mode freely, depending only on context. For example, âheâs just an average Joeâ is to say heâs like most other men in his demographic. In that case average means mode. In Carlinâs joke, average means median.