Voters In Many States Must Register By October 6 182
Will F. Johnston writes "Voters in AK, AR, AZ, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IN, KY, LA, MI, MS, OH, PA, TN, TX, and VA must register to vote by tomorrow, October 6, in order to vote in November. Other deadlines coming up soon: IL and NM are October 7. MT is Oct. 6, but you can do same-day registration at the elections office. UT is also Oct. 6, but you can register in person until the 20th."
Re:And just one other reminder (Score:3, Informative)
It's a Simpson's reference [wikipedia.org].
Re:Tomorrow? (Score:3, Informative)
Err, you can register to vote before you turn 18, so long as you register within 6 months of your birthday and you will be 18 by or on election day.
I know because I did it several years ago.
IQ is a standard normal, so average = median (Score:3, Informative)
> No, half of the people in this country are at or below median intelligence.
IQ [wikipedia.org] is based on the assumption that intelligence distribution is normal. In the normal distribution, the average is the same as the median, and yes, half the people in the world have below-average intelligence. That does not mean that half the people in this country have below average intelligence, because IQ averages vary by country. If you look at the table of IQs by country [wikipedia.org] (which are averages, BTW), you'll see that the US has the average IQ of 98, meaning that slightly more than half the people in this country have below-average intelligence: 55.3%. By comparison, in Equatorial Guinea, where the average IQ is 59, 99.7% of the population has below average intelligence. You can get the numbers by calculating the error function with this calculator [asu.edu], 59 is 41/15(SD)=2.73(3) standard deviations.