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> 99% ... are better than average. I'm thinking there's a flaw in your mathematics...
by cmroanirgo 7y ago
> 99% ... are better than average.
I'm thinking there's a flaw in your mathematics...
- mrbungie 7y agoNo flaw with math/stats here, that can actually happen. I think you're confusing average/mean with median (50-percentile). PS: I'm not sure where he's getting his numbers though
- elgenie 7y ago99% of the people on Earth have a higher than average number of legs.
- saalweachter 7y agoAnd a below-average number of heads.
- Stratoscope 7y agoYou've never been on a project that was 80% done and 80% to go?
- ConceptJunkie 7y agoAnd after the second 80% is finished, then you only have 80% left.
- Merg 7y agoNot native speaker here, but I think, he just meant that, most programmers and drivers thinks they are better in respective things then, they really are. It is just like letting programmer build a house. It is just a really bad idea.
- aiCeivi9 7y agohttps://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#evaluating-competence https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#evaluating-co... > 70% of respondents say they are above average
- dragonwriter 7y agoDepends which average it refers to any of the means, or the media, or the mode can be “average” (most typically, though, it means the arithmetic mean), and it's only impossible in terms of the median.
- LorenPechtel 7y agoExactly. Anything where you have a main clump with a long tail will show this pattern--most samples will be better than the mean.