
Doug B. answered 10/13/15
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Math in Plain Language
By definition the mean is the "balance point" of the probability. A score above the mean has exactly the same probability as a score above the mean. So the probability of a score being less than the mean and the probability of a score being above the mean are the same: 50 percent or 0.5. This is always true, regardless of the shape of the distribution.