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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 07 June 2012 08:01:52AM *  0 points [-]

So to simplify considerably, if you sampled 100 smart people and 100 dumb people and they differ by 14%, is that enough certainty for you?

I am not good at statistics, but I guess yes. Especially if those 100 people are really randomly selected, which in the given situation they were.