# How are you above and below average? List the ways. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-above-and-below-average-list-the-ways/818575 "2018-07-25T19:08:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-above-and-below-average-list-the-ways/818575/41 "2018-07-30T17:32:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Above average: Number of legs. For humans? Or for all animals? Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-above-and-below-average-list-the-ways/818575/42 "2018-07-30T17:37:32Z")
Ah, true, the average animal number of legs is very close to six. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-above-and-below-average-list-the-ways/818575/43 "2018-07-30T19:42:42Z")
Definitely above average in pain management. Pain simply does not bother me. I’ve read more books and walked more miles than most people. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-above-and-below-average-list-the-ways/818575/44 "2018-07-30T20:09:42Z")
Above average - - Physical strength, especially upper body strength and grip strength. I tested out to be stronger than 99% of people my age, and 82% of people of any age. - I am better than average at my job. I have working with my skill set for more than twenty years, and I know it quite well. - Trivia - I have a head stuffed with useless knowledge, in many areas. Below average - - I am a lousy driver. No sense of direction at all. - No memory for names. Fortunately we wear security badges at work, so I can pretend to recognize people I have been working with for months. - Sight - I am blind in one eye. - I am really good at throwing a Frisbee. I am really bad at throwing anything else - I can’t sink a free throw to save my life, I can’t throw to first base from second base, I don’t think I have ever won at Ping-Pong. I am outstandingly mediocre. As Joseph Heller said in _Catch-22_ - “people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-above-and-below-average-list-the-ways/818575/45 "2018-07-31T13:48:05Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Yes sir. Wait, are you doing porn now?! You have to tell us more! ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-above-and-below-average-list-the-ways/818575/46 "2018-07-31T15:47:58Z")
Above: Height - 6’ Household Income - We’re a weird family with three adults with jobs. I’m not sure how it will go for the next US Census . . . Vacation - I figure that having been to 42 US states is above average. Below: My brain - Epilepsy makes it below average somehow I’m sure. Sports - I don’t watch or do any Friends - Moved here three years ago and while as a family we have friends, none are ones from me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-above-and-below-average-list-the-ways/818575.md?page=2)