Re: US may disable all in-car mobile phones
"nicholas a. evans" <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: >> The problem is that the average driver doesn't think that he or she is an >> average driver: nearly two-thirds of drivers think of themselves as safer >> and more skillful than a driver of median safety or skills — a statistical >> impossibility, of course. > > Two thirds of those drivers (two thirds of the two thirds, that is) would > still be right, though. :) > >> Remember one unassailable statistic, as explained by the late, great >> George Carlin: "Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then >> realize half of them are even stupider!" Both you and George Carlin have mistaken the median for the mode. Unless the bell curve is unskewed (which seems unlikely to me), they probably aren't the same. My guess: the 50th percentile is probably worse than average. (Which makes me wonder, how exactly would this be measured?) -- Nick -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot