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I think your response just proved his point. We have no idea what 'average' means, so the mind tries to find something it does know. Like never being in an acci

• baddox 12y ago
  > We have no idea what 'average' means, so the mind tries to find something it does know. It's more like we have to interpret what "average" means in this context. It's not "making up something that isn't an average," it's "deciding what quantity to average." > According to this: http://www.statisticbrain.com/driving-citation-statistics/ http://www.statisticbrain.com/driving-citation-statistics/ only 20% of drivers get traffic infractions, meaning the average driver has never had one. The average number of infractions per driver is greater than zero. That means that I am better than average. It also means that at least 80% of drivers are better than average.
• Shish2k 12y ago
  > only 20% of drivers get traffic infractions, meaning the average driver has never had one. The median driver has never had one, but the mean (which is what most people mean by average) has had >=0.2