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Also, it's revealed in the Bean books that Bean had actually already hacked into the school's computer system, so it makes sense that he's the one that sabotaged the gate | Also, it's revealed in the Bean books that Bean had actually already hacked into the school's computer system, so it makes sense that he's the one that sabotaged the gate | ||
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| + | "[...]a boy of above-average intelligence, which means he is recruited to be trained to be one of the commanders of Earth's "Defense" Fleet[...]" I never read the books, but does this mean a) that about half the boys get recruited to be commanders? or is the setting using a distribution of intelligence, which puts the average (arithmetic) far away from the median? Or is average here something else but the aritmetic middle? Or is it supposed to mean "far above-average"? The current explanation leaves an (average) reader who never heard of Enders game truly confused about this.--[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 14:00, 3 March 2020 (UTC) | ||
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Should there be some sort of spoiler tag at the top of this explanation? NixillUmbreon (talk) 08:20, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
That's not really a spoiler 199.27.133.28 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
^ you learn those things in the first few chapters. 162.158.126.230 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
"I think Card would be unpleased with Bean's antics." 162.158.74.225 20:25, 19 December 2016 (UTC) Ender's Game: The Movie That Shows How Being Politically Correct Can Screw a Movie Up
Also, it's revealed in the Bean books that Bean had actually already hacked into the school's computer system, so it makes sense that he's the one that sabotaged the gate
"[...]a boy of above-average intelligence, which means he is recruited to be trained to be one of the commanders of Earth's "Defense" Fleet[...]" I never read the books, but does this mean a) that about half the boys get recruited to be commanders? or is the setting using a distribution of intelligence, which puts the average (arithmetic) far away from the median? Or is average here something else but the aritmetic middle? Or is it supposed to mean "far above-average"? The current explanation leaves an (average) reader who never heard of Enders game truly confused about this.--Lupo (talk) 14:00, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
