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It's not possible for most people to be worse than average.
by FooHentai 7y ago
It's not possible for most people to be worse than average.
- throwaway2048 7y agoOnly true where there is a normal distribution, the vast majority of people are less wealthy than the global mean of individual wealth for instance. The vast majority of people have more than the mean number of legs per person.
- OJFord 7y agoDepends on what's meant by 'average'. True for median, (by definition) but false for mean and mode.
- afterburner 7y agoColloquially, average only ever means mean.
- OJFord 7y agoI'm inclined to agree that's what most people mean, (particularly non-STEM people) but it seems that's not what the poster I replied to above meant.
- pcmaffey 7y agoThe 10x engineer exists only because of the proliferation of .1x engineers.
- paulcole 7y agoYes, that’s why I didn’t say that.