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Why not 5% of Americans having the same average level of understanding and only 47.5% having a lower than average understanding?
What assumptions are you making, and why should they be true?
Really?
Why not 5% of Americans having the same average level of understanding and only 47.5% having a lower than average understanding?
What assumptions are you making, and why should they be true?
It is the same as wealth, or any dataset that has large data outliers on one side.
Average and mean are the same: normal distribution. Average higher than mean: skewed by big outliers.
Professional statistician affects the distribution of statistics knowledge like billionaires affect wealth distribution.