[inter_netuser]

50% of doctors are by definition below the average.

In reality, roughly 3-10% are good, the rest just go by standard guidelines only and/or punt you off to someone else.

[amirhirsch]

50% are below the median.

[inter_netuser]

Grades are normalized on a gaussian curve.

What's the difference between mean and median in a Gaussian distribution?

Looking forward to your contributions to mathematics.

[selcuka]

> Grades are normalized on a gaussian curve.

Are we talking about grades? Honestly when I see "50% of doctors are below average" I intuitively think of some other metric, such as the correct/incorrect diagnosis ratio, or the number of people that died because of their errors. Maybe it's just me but their uni (?) grades never comes to my mind.

[inter_netuser]

It alludes to the joke: "what do you call the last student from the worst medical school? A doctor"

[heavyset_go]

Median is a type of average.

[tsol]

50% of everything is below the average.