Indeed, and such ability can be learned or trained. Yet such tests are not meant to be taken more than once, or else they become fatally flawed, and the same is true if folk who've taken them then discuss what's in them with those about to take them.
Well, I doubt whether intelligence is enough to prevent a bank going bust.
Besides, there do exist jobs for all sorts of people (in terms of level of intelligence), so people of average intelligence would be overqualified for many jobs.
Does it? OK, if it does, you've caught me out. The shame. But the point is that your challenge to my unintended (but now endorsed) implication is invalid. Take that, you fiend!
If you're trying to imply that my proposition fails if the number of medians and the population size are both odd or both even, then these examples demonstrate otherwise:
It's not a question of oddness or evenness of pop size or number of medians, but whether the midpoint of the median set coincides with the midpoint of the population.
Proving nothing. I don't deny that it is often the case for the same proportion of the population to lie above and below the median, whether or not that proportion is as high as the full 50%. My point is merely that this is not *necessarily always* the case.
I wonder why you did, if you seem not to have grasped its implication.
I'm sorry you feel that way, but I don't think I'm abusing the language here. "Fewer" goes with whole numbers, "less" with fractions, no? You would say that a man with one leg has one fewer than a man with two, but if he had a leg and a half, he'd have half a leg less, not half a leg fewer, isn't that right?
OK - but by the time I wrote that, I had been imbibing to help forget the budget. (Will that do?)
I have a question for you.... assume you have 51 red lorries and 49 yellow lorries. What's the average colour - orange or red? (answers in nanometres are not permitted...)
Ah - I agree with that, but not your earlier claim that "it can't be right"
Which rather supports the notion that I did "grasp" - even if you felt I didn't "seem".
But your context (inserting your omittted but implied words) was surely "... some folk will have fewer than two legs..."
Agreed, but IME this rarely happens. Kids usually take (the important ones) all at the same time (eg 11+), and adults are usually competeing for a job so have little incentive to help the competition.
Maybe, but I claim that "the ability not to make a bank go bust" is somewhat different.
And there I was, about to mention that I have (driven one, that is - and it was a bendy one!!), and it's harder to do so legally and safely than your (much) earlier remark suggested.
On the other hand, I've never made a bank go bust. Yet....
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