The state of things

Half the students are below average! This is outrageous!

I cant tell if this is a joke or if this guy is in the bottom quartile.

First time I saw a statistician joke

Ironically, him being a fucking idiot actually proves his point.

News at 11: "Half of people are below average!"

I notice there is a 25% in the top as well... Coincidence or conspiracy...

60% of the time, it works every time

I was skeptical of these numbers until I did the research. It's even worse than I thought. Did you know that only 20% of students test in the top quintile? Is our children learning?

I'm surprised it's only 25%. These days, I'd figure at least 40% would be in the lowest quartile. Has anyone checked the math on this?

I can almost see a facebook post along the lines of:
One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to understand how terrible things are, when fully 25% of the population are in the bottom quartile.

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Can't explain that.

Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

But then again, 25 percent of American students are also in the top quartile on standardized tests, so it evens out.

Nice try everyone knows that the soyjack is on one end and the chad is at the other.

Fucking genius.

We need to get kids up to the Lake Woebegone standard!

What's sad is people are taking this seriously because someone believing this at face value as a bad thing isn't entirely farfetched lol

An education system that always fails a set number of people, regarless of how well people do, is a bad system, however.

Was he being facetious or serious? Because that’s scary if he was being serious.

Do you statistics? This guy clearly statistics.

Duh!!