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"Most believe themselves 'above average' at most things."

• mewse 4y ago
  Most people have an above-average number of legs. There's really no contradiction there; all it takes is for there to be a couple low scores pulling the average down.
  • dragonwriter 4y ago
    > Most people have an above-average number of legs. The arithmetic mean and the median are both averages, but the upthread comment was about the median and yours about the arithmetic mean. > There's really no contradiction there; all it takes is for there to be a couple low scores pulling the average down. Well, no, when what you are estimating is relative performance by score percentiles, and people's self evaluation is biased toward the 70th percentile, that's not what is happening.
  • LaurieKoudstaal 4y ago
    In the context of the paper, we should be talking about the median, not the mean.