• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      The problem is teaching people how median, mean, and percentile work. Don’t teach that stuff, and then you can put 100% of the people in the 99th percentile.

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        You can have 99.9% of people in the 100th potential as long as you have Derek the Dirt Eater as well. Derek can reliably pull the average down.