[Mears]

“Some study showed that 80% of people think they are above average.”

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Not me. I always called myself Medium Mears.

Medium height.

Medium weight.

Medium income.

Medium intelligence.

All those “mediums” have served me well over the years.

[Talisker]

All those “mediums” have served me well over the years.

That's because you've used them in an above-average way, by understanding them in an excellent way, in order to follow brilliant ideas without being sabotaged by below-average people.

[piytar]

I’ve read enough of your posts to know that you have WAY anove average common sense, which is far from common. Or average.

[Bob]

I came across the following question posted on Yahoo Answers the other day:

I am a teacher. We are ranked on a 1-5 scale. So, 50 percent of my eval was 2.76, 35 percent was 2.0, and 15 percent was 4.0.

So what is my rank on 1-5 scale? Help! Very stumped!

While my response may have been perhaps a bit over the top, I call 'em like I see 'em:

You're a teacher and you can't do a simple weighted average??? I certainly hope that you're not a math teacher.

Multiply each score times its weight and sum them:

(0.5 * 2.76) + (0.35 * 2.0) + (0.15 * 4.0) = 1.38 + 0.7 + 0.6 = 2.68

And people wonder why the kids aren't learning much?

And, yes, that question was for real:

Yahoo Answers post

[Born to Conserve]

“Not me. I always called myself Medium Mears.”

If you were “medium” at judging yourself, you wouldn’t judge yourself “medium”. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

[Zippo44]

6’ 4” tall
300 lbs
139 IQ
Income is where I am exactly average for my profession.