• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The “smarter than” measurement, while vague, suggests the person is not has smart as most everyone else. Say you have 100 people in a room, then this guy is smarter than only 8. So that leaves about 91 other people who are smarter than him.

    So I’m not sure how this person could also be considered in the top 91.9% of anything. At least not without having more information.

    Here is a discussion about percentages and percentiles that may be of help.

    I could be wrong; I’m not the best of math. The above is my understanding (or lack thereof).

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      4 months ago

      Assuming it’s supposed to indicate the 91% of people are of his intelligence or higher, which is a pretty dumb (as a metric and level of intelligence).