Posted by Chairman_MAO on March 2, 2006, at 16:12:44
In reply to Re: Opinions » wildcard11, posted by TylerJ on March 1, 2006, at 20:50:37
Most people are average. That is the definition of "average". There is something called the "Lake Wobegon Effect" (I cant spell it) which is the phenomenon of a majority of people believing they're all above average at something, e.g. whether they are a poor, average, or above-average driver.
Now, if what you mean is that most people that you know are not what society defines "normal" behavior as, e.g. not too much but not too little of anything, then yes, I agree with you. The average number of children per family can be a decimal, not just an integer. This makes sense, and yet there is no such thing as an actual FAMILY with 2.7 children. It is not that most people are not average, but that "average" is metaphysical.
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