Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average.

Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average.

by Amanda Blain
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Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average.

eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average

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Jan Aynes
Jan Aynes
12 years ago

30% More than mathematically possible… Of course, that's an obvious observation 🙂

David Rooke
David Rooke
12 years ago

Its ok to excel at being average

Brett Bjornsen
Brett Bjornsen
12 years ago

but of those 80%, how many actually are?

scott jarrette
scott jarrette
12 years ago

some

Joe McCrary
Joe McCrary
12 years ago

Statistically speaking, 80% of people CAN be above average. It just depends on the other 20% being FAR below average.

Joe McCrary
Joe McCrary
12 years ago

Nope. Never.

Edward Ferguson
Edward Ferguson
12 years ago

We are all above average at something… So do not feel too bad if you feel below average. Personally, I like to think I am in the top 2% so I can still join the protest as part of the 99%. 😉

Denise Case
Denise Case
12 years ago

Like +Edward Ferguson said… There are quite a few categories… maybe they're thinking of the one they're best in 🙂

Alberto Donado
Alberto Donado
12 years ago

My ninja graf skills are unparalleled.

Steve Thomas
Steve Thomas
12 years ago

As it happens, 68% of people are "normal" (within one standard deviation from the mean). Which is probably a good thing, all in all. 🙂

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_deviation_diagram.svg

Charles Traupmann
Charles Traupmann
12 years ago

Why is that? If I had 10 students who scored 6 and one that scored 0, I could say 90% were above average. Use larger numbers and the rounding will come out to All!

Amanda Blain
Amanda Blain
12 years ago

Ahhhh I love when i make math jokes here on plus… Be proud math geeks… be proud… ?

John Fanavans
John Fanavans
12 years ago

Mean, median or mode mon cheri?

Steve Coles
Steve Coles
12 years ago

If we were all the same no-one would be above average and things would be pretty boring like this comment.

Silly maths stuff showing how our ideas of above and below average are not always what we expect.
Set of 10 with values 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 100
Average is 12, median is 2
10% are above average
40% are above the median
Another set of 10 with values 99, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100
90% are above average
none are above the median

Michael Mozart
Michael Mozart
12 years ago

What about kids?? 99% think there kids are " Above Average" when obviously only MINE are!

John Biscevic
John Biscevic
12 years ago

83% of all statistics are made up on the spot…(I'm just sayin) 🙂

Steve Coles
Steve Coles
12 years ago

132% of people exaggerate statistics 🙂

Brian Inman
Brian Inman
12 years ago

37% of people are white trash.

David Bowden
David Bowden
12 years ago

"Above Average" is a relative term and therefore subject to interpretation. Hence the anomalies in calculation and discrepancies with regard to the logic indicating as such. “The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing” – Blaise Pascal

Stacy S
Stacy S
12 years ago

The bottom 37% of the top 83% can be mislead 64% of the time by statistics made up on the spot with 1% accuracy and a 99% uncertanity, which only goes to show that you can onlyy trust the numbers 12% of the time.

David Bowden
David Bowden
12 years ago

+Stacy S Perfect !

John Biscevic
John Biscevic
12 years ago

+Stacy S, you just made my brain hurt…does that mean I'm in the bottom 57%?

Karen Prior
Karen Prior
12 years ago

I'll take one for the team – I don't mind being not 'above average'…. I'll just watch all the ego's explode of those who need the superiority complex.

Rob Meijer
Rob Meijer
12 years ago

Almost 50% of people have an above average IQ, almost 50% of people have an above average look, almost 50% of people have above average people skills, almost 50% of people have above average driving skills, almost 50% of people have …. etc etc. So basically I would say over 99% of us are above average 😉

Peter Walker
Peter Walker
12 years ago

70% of all statistics are made up.

Sounak Ghosh
Sounak Ghosh
12 years ago

good one…

Dmitry Gudkov
Dmitry Gudkov
12 years ago

Isn't it because of weighted average?

Sambit Tripathy
Sambit Tripathy
12 years ago

I just realized that I come under the rest of the twenty percent of all people..I must get drunk 😉

Richard Raymond
Richard Raymond
12 years ago

As I look around my immediate surroundings, it becomes painfully obvious that 80% are obese.

Sergio Sancho
Sergio Sancho
12 years ago

Probably part of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Peter Walker
Peter Walker
12 years ago

damn +Sergio Sancho , you just made my day… I'm always worrying that I'm not as good as other people in my field. As of now, I'm going to start assuming that most people are shit 😀

Sergio Sancho
Sergio Sancho
12 years ago

+Peter Walker glad to help 🙂
So the question is, how many of the 20% ARE above average?

Hernan Gil
Hernan Gil
12 years ago

+Sergio Sancho walk round ur neighborhood n start conversing with ppl. pretend to be very stupid n jump from one subject to the other (talk randomly bout different things). soon enough u will have the answer to ur question at a local scale.

u can apply that to the whole state. n then copy n paste ur results to the remaining states.
which leaves u with a very small #. see?

Pallas Lau
Pallas Lau
12 years ago

tell that to my mom.

Hernan Gil
Hernan Gil
12 years ago

i dont care enought to do that. xD Lol.

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