The robot says, "What will you have?"

The guy says, "Martini."

The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, "What's your IQ?"

The guy says, "168."

The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology

The guy leaves, but he is curious...

So he goes back into the bar.

The robot bartender says, "What will you have?"

The guy says, "Martini."

Again, the robot makes a great martini gives it to the man and says,

"What's your IQ?" The guy says, "100."

The robot then starts to talk about Nascar, Budweiser and John Deere tractors.

The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will try it one more time.

He goes back into the bar. The robot says, "What will you have?"

The guy says,”Martini," and the robot brings him another great martini.

The robot then says, "What's your IQ?"

The guy says, "Uh, about 50.”

The robot leans in real close and says,

"So, you people still happy you voted for Obama?"

1- We can establish that 100 is considered "average" on the IQ scale. This suggests that 1/2 of the population is above the scale and 1/2 is below.

2 - Lets assume the IQ scale follows a traditional bell curve.

3 - Per your joke, only individuals who's IQ significantly deviated from the average, voted for Obama. I don't have the care to look it up, but 50 is probably a number of standard deviations below average. Hell, even if the robot had a "if below 85 then run obama" script, we're still talking a standard deviation from norm. This means 16% of the population.

So....

If only 16% of the population voted for Obama, how did he win?

You can't argue with robots. They know more math than you.

^ ACORN...

I think you nead to revisit the meaning of mean, median and mode

an average of 100 does not mean roughly half are above and half below. until this moment I assumed you were in the above bucket. now... not so much

But under a standard bell curve, the mean and the median will be the same number (or close enough to be considered the same).

Note, one of my assumptions was that we are dealing with a standard bell curve. Could be skewed, I dunno. 🙂

spellin a word wrong in here is worse than not recognizing scientific or academic parameters to control legitimate discussion

Just saying....

^ that was cruel... CROS would be upset..

Well, when you have all 57 states voting all bets are off.

hehehe...

I've always just assumed that its because this forum is a decidedly non-random sampling of the population that we see a skewed curve.

You can ask jpotts about non-random. He invented it.