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

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• 30% More than mathematically possible... Of course, that's an obvious observation :)

• Its ok to excel at being average

• some

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

• Nope. Never.

• 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%. ;)

• My ninja graf skills are unparalleled.

• 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!

• Mean, median or mode mon cheri?

• 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