[sclug] Nvidia and Ubuntu.

[Alex Butcher]

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Pieter Claassen wrote:

> On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:11, Dickon Hood wrote:
>> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 14:09:21 +0200, Pieter Claassen wrote:
>
>> : of the driver is not inherently apparent unless you have an IQ of 120
>> : (the average I think is 110).
>>
>> The average is defined to be 100.  When developing IQ tests you need to
>
> Ha, but then you have not heard that more than 50% of people think that they
> are above average intelligent ;-)

Well, the average (i.e. mean) doesn't necessarily divide any given dataset
into two equally-sized parts. Consider the set {1,8,8,9,10}. The average is
7.2, but 80% of the set is above that average.

Once again, the median is a far more interesting measure.

> Pieter

Best Regards,
Alex.
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