From: "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I find that assumption to be so blatant (much like numbers w/o powers are raised to first, numbers without signs are positive, 0 is neither positive nor negative, 1 is neither prime nor composite) to not even be worth mentioning. Unless, of course, someone confuses arithmetic mean (average) with median. Or says 0 is positive, or 1 is prime.
Dear god, stop this thread already. Yes, you're right, 50% of a population is not necessarily below average. But in a normal distribution, the difference between mean and median is statisticly insignificant. Such as in the example data posted, where the SAT differences was about 1%.
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