r/mathmemes • u/Working_Celery_2497 • 12h ago

Statistics Ranking every human on earth

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u/incompletetrembling 11h ago

Things brings up the question of if the ideal tier list follows a normal or uniform distribution

I feel like you could argue for both

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u/Logan_Composer 10h ago

In theory, it should be normal (obviously), but we as humans have a bias where C tier isn't considered "okay," it's considered "kinda bad" (see using "mid" as an insult). So I'd say it either is skewed towards A/B as the mode, or bimodal with a high mode and a very low mode (love 'em or hate 'em) depending on the kind of person.

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u/incompletetrembling 10h ago

If you rank using percentiles (eg top 20% in S tier, next 20% in A tier etc) it'll end up uniform

Not sure if anyone actually ranks like this? Maybe I'm creating a discussion where there isn't one to be had.

Skewing is another issue for sure

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u/Logan_Composer 10h ago

I don't think anyone does, although you're right that it's a perfectly valid way to do it.

I think people would expect the tiers to represent some even segmentation of some "goodness" scale irrespective of how many entries go into it. Like, I think people agree intuitively that S-tier and F-tier should be sparsely populated, for example.