# Are you more average than average?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-more-average-than-average/330405>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 10, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-more-average-than-average/330405 "2005-11-10T15:46:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-more-average-than-average/330405/21 "2005-11-11T01:37:07Z")

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> [@Johnny L.A.](#):
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> On a more serious note: I’ve heard that _half_ of the people in the U.S. are below average! :eek:

Yes, but on a more positive note, about 50% of people are statistically _above_ average. 😃

> [@pravnik](#):
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> No, but I’m more human than human.

I always thought you were an astro-freak, and a rather average one at that.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-more-average-than-average/330405/22 "2005-11-11T01:45:30Z")

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I thought this was gonna be about Dame Edna.

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**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-more-average-than-average/330405/23 "2005-11-11T01:48:09Z")

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I’m somewhere in the 95% confidence interval.

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-more-average-than-average/330405/24 "2005-11-11T02:28:15Z")

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I’m pretty average. I got half A’s and half F’s in high school. They wanted to know what was going on so they made my take an IQ test. I got the highest score ever recorded on the analytical portion and the lowest score ever seen on the verbal part. That’s me, mister average IQ score.

I am average in mundane ways too. I read that people sleep on average of 8 hours a night. I thought back on my habit of sleeping 24 hours every third day and took comfort in the fact that I should be close to the mark on important things even if it isn’t exciting.

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