Godric@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoHe has a point, eh?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up1495arrow-down16
arrow-up1489arrow-down1imageHe has a point, eh?lemmy.worldGodric@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square23linkfedilink
minus-squareofficermike@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up161·5 months agoWhat’s worse is that half of the students are performing worse than the median.
minus-squareGodric@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up88arrow-down2·5 months agoReminds me of an old Carlin joke: "Think about how stupid the average person you meet in a day is. Think about it, think about it. HALF OF THEM ARE EVEN STUPIDER THAN THAT!"
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·5 months agoNow if only we could judge people on actual intelligence instead of just how much we disagree with them…
minus-squareyabai@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoWhile the median is hard to believe, I think it’s worse in some ways that half of the students are performing worse than the mean.
minus-squareAlberat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agowe need more students to fail harder to bring the mean down then?
What’s worse is that half of the students are performing worse than the median.
Reminds me of an old Carlin joke:
"Think about how stupid the average person you meet in a day is. Think about it, think about it.
HALF OF THEM ARE EVEN STUPIDER THAN THAT!"
Now if only we could judge people on actual intelligence instead of just how much we disagree with them…
While the median is hard to believe, I think it’s worse in some ways that half of the students are performing worse than the mean.
we need more students to fail harder to bring the mean down then?