I think a good part of that is because 'average human' is not a good way to represent who we are individually. I'm probably above average at specific things but in many other respects I'm average or below or wherever I'm supposed to be. Maybe most people are above average even though on average most of us are average.

Fully above average people IMO are like astronauts and stuff. We all live in the shadow of that former navy seal/doctor/astronaut who is like 45 or some crazy shit.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This really depends on the distribution. If some or all of the people in that bottom 20% are very, very stupid it could actually work out that 80% are above average, because the average is being pulled down by the people at the bottom.

This is why we have different averages like mean, median, mode, and RMS because they each give you different interpretations of the raw data. For example the mean electro motive force of the grid is around 0 volts because it spends as much time in the negative as the positive. We use RMS here because negative numbers become positive when squared.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just the fact that you’re thinking about this in terms of a distribution that’s non-normal indicates that you’re on the right side of that distribution.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Flat earthers and anti vaxxers bring the average down far enough to make that possible.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm definitely average

Maybe a little stupid sometimes