No offense to Mr. Wiesel, but if he was paying any attention at all to his finances, he would have realized that he could not possibly have been getting such a rate of return honestly. Cupidity is the root of almost all cons.
I’ve always been a fan of the Japanese version of the latter, 出る杭は打たれる (Deru kugi wa utareru). “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”
When I was slogging through the last month or so of my tenure at the Worst Job Ever, I wrote it out on a notecard and stuck it on the wall of my cube where I could look at it to remind myself to keep my mouth shut, figuring that no one else would be able to read Japanese.
Yes, I thought about using it, but my Australian boss used to say the poppy one, and I figured we have more Australians than Japanese onboard.
Many hands make light work. vs. Too many cooks spoil the soup.
I should start a new thread, instead of continuing the hijack of this one.
“Average” isn’t a mathematical term, so the definition isn’t precise anyway. It can refer to the mean, median, or the mode. Cite.
I would agree that the mean is probably most commonly what is meant by “average”, but if you say “average” when you are talking about the median, you would not be wrong.
Very very very rarely in my life - maybe once or twice, have I looked at a situation and seen a “bad” kid with “good” parents, and just been perplexed and forced to considered that maybe the kid was just born that way. Even then there might be something going on behind the scenes that isn’t apparent up front. In the vast majority of cases, it’s blatantly obvious that the parents are fuckups.
Much more often I’ve seen fuckup parents refuse to acknowledge their horrible parenting skills and blame their kid for being born “bad”*.
Edit: *which is just a monstrous thing to do to a kid, by the way, and probably becomes a self-fufilling prophecy more often than not.
True, but even if you are talking about the median (or the mode for that matter) the adage that “half are always below average” still does not hold. One way this can happen is when one value occurs much more frequently than the others.
Here’s an odd example. Consider the number of arms people have. That distribution is going to have some 0s and 1s, a whole lot of 2s, and a very few larger numbers. The median and mode are both 2, the mean is slightly less. Half the people are not below any of them.
Oh, and Lantern? That is awesome. Go James Fallows!
ETA: Okay, so frogs don’t normally stay put. But what if it’s sleeping? Will it notice or not? Anyone with a frog and a pot on hand willing to do an experiment?
The way I’ve heard is that you need a fruity vinegar like apple cider or wine, because to them it smells like decaying fruit, their preferred target. Honey doesn’t have much of a smell, and certainly not like decay.