Quotes About Average

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American.

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American." i think this quote means that pickles do not go on barbecue steaks. i agree with it because it represents Americans "He built an architecture of Bach, stone by exquisite stone, raising a music cathedral so vast." i think that this quote means that something can be built so elegantly. i disagree because there are always problems.

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

The socially relevant achievement of the average person serves in the vast majority of cases to repress the original and nonderivative, inner aspirations of the human being.

Cuánto tiempo hemos perdido buscando ser competentes en cosas inútiles y sin sentido, solo por sobrepasar el promedio! Los apegos siempre están al servicio de lo inútil, lo absurdo o lo peligroso, así que no pierdas el tiempo.

I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

regression to the mean has an explanation but does not have a cause.

whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean.

The truth is that small schools are not better on average; they are simply more variable.

More generally, the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average returns by selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own. The

the weighted average of its possible dollar outcomes; it is the average of the utilities of these outcomes, each weighted by its probability.

people's choices are based not on dollar values but on the psychological values of outcomes, their utilities. The psychological value of a gamble is therefore not the weighted average of its possible dollar outcomes; it is the average of the utilities of these outcomes, each weighted by its probability.

The observation that "90% of drivers believe they are better than average" is a well-established psychological finding that has become part of the culture, and it often comes up as a prime example of a more general above-average effect.

Level noise is variability in the average level of judgments by different judges. Pattern noise is variability in judges' responses to particular cases.

An interesting fact about Starkley is that there are no interesting facts about Starkley.

My trick was to use a different kind of average each time, the word "average" having a very loose meaning. It is a trick commonly used, sometimes in innocence but often in guilt, by fellows wishing to influence public opinion or sell advertising space. When you are told that something is an average you still don't know very much about it unless you can find out which of the common kinds of average it is—mean, median, or mode.

My trick was to use a different kind of average each time, the word "average" having a very loose meaning. It is a trick commonly used, sometimes in innocence but often in guilt, by fellows wishing to influence public opinion or sell advertising space. When you are told that something is the average you still don't know very much about it unless you can find out which of the common kinds of average it is- mean, median, or mode.

They are the most disagreeable of people. … Their insincerity? Can you not feel a sense of disgust at the arrogant presumption of superiority of these people? Superiority of intellect! Then, when it comes to practice, down they fall with a wallop not only to the level of ordinary human beings but to a level which is even far below the average.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

The difference between the long-term average of the graph and the ice age, 12,000 years ago, is just over 3°C. The IPCC 2001 report suggests that the line of the hockey stick graph might rise a further 5°C during this century. This is about twice as much as the temperature change from the ice age to pre-industrial times.

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.