The 'ring that's built around the decision-maker' is still, on average, better than the median person. But it generally is very unevenly distributed in any sin

The 'ring that's built around the decision-maker' is still, on average, better than the median person. But it generally is very unevenly distributed in any single, concrete, individual, so that it may appear to be worse depending on perspective. e.g. A bonafide super-genius with a lot of unfortunate personality traits. Such that they can't really be considered that great, just somewhat above average.