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About half the population has a below-average IQ. If we use it as a proxy for "intelligence", that leaves Jones with roughly a 100 million potential adult listeners, only in the US. That's enough to make him wildly popular.


I have absolutely no data to back this up, but I'd be surprised if Alex Jones's listeners are especially unintelligent to a statistically significant degree.


OK then consider it with 1 standard deviation of average. That was the intended meaning. The big hump of the normal distribution.


As Richard Feynman would say, there's plenty room at the bottom.




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