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In the words of J. R. “Bob” Dobbs, “You know how dumb the average guy is? Well, by definition, half of ‘em are even dumber than that”
How smart would you bet on the median guy being?
I'm willing to bet it's 100 IQ
In the US its 98
Judging from another post about an engineer that blasted through a test out of spite, got put into some training and had a print with the test showing his score of 80, which was "smarter than 90%", that makes me think the average is sitting somewhere close to 70