Astonishing - sh.itjust.works

About 50% of people are below average

This cracks me up because it is often said with such confidence, but it is just wrong.

If you have 10 people, 8 have an intelligence score of 1, 1 has a score of 5 and 1 has a score of 10. The average is 2.3 which means that 80% of the people are below average.

The median is the only thing that is going to guarantee 50%.

On a bell curve the average and mean are the same. Your example isn’t a bell curve. Many things will be a bell curve.