Half our presidents have been above average

Above average? or above median? This is making assumptions about the distribution.

Technically true, but the general public usually only knows about the average - and for most cases, it is "close enough". Also, most measurement scales are terminated at the low end (zero) but not the high, so usually there are more than 50% above the average, such as with salaries.

Steve Prevette said:

Technically true, but the general public usually only knows about the average - and for most cases, it is "close enough". Also, most measurement scales are terminated at the low end (zero) but not the high, so usually there are more than 50% above the average, such as with salaries.

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Measurement method would be highly variable here. And depending on who's doing the rating, zero might not hold up as the lower boundary on the scale

Randy said:

That didn't go over well when I answered a similar question, not one bit.

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Well you can't leave a teaser like that out there and not give us the details!

Robinson A said:

Did you experience it as an academic test?

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Discussion during one of my college classes in Leadership being taught by someone with less leadership experience than the front duck of a flock heading south for the winter.

There's also George Carlin's glass-half-empty take on this:

"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that!"

Matt's Quality Handle said:

There's also George Carlin's glass-half-empty take on this:

"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that!"

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George Carlin was a under-appreciated philosopher.

I often wondered if my increasing disappointment with Presidents of the USA grew as I grew older because they were getting worse or I saw them as just other people trying to figure it all out. I'm quite cynical now and just hope leaders wont make huge mistakes.

"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth." -George Carlin

Randy said:

George Carlin was a under-appreciated philosopher.

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That.... is a true statement. His list of naughty words that he came up with like... 50 years ago, has become industry standard/ accepted as censored words.

BradM said:

That.... is a true statement. His list of naughty words that he came up with like... 50 years ago, has become industry standard/ accepted as censored words.

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I learned some even better words and phrases in the Marines and as a cop but I won't use them here and only amongst a select few