• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    it’s a little bit worrisome that we all seem to think we’re in the 10%.

    A bit like how when you poll drivers on how good they think they are at driving, the vast majority say they’re better than average lol

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      2 months ago

      That’s possible though, if there are some really bad drivers screwing the average.

      Edit: it’s probably even true in this case, it just depends on how you define ‘good’. For example if you define it by getting tickets, only 36% of drivers are issued tickets. The average number of tickets issued is > 0 but the majority of drivers aren’t issued tickets, the average is skewed, because most drivers are at 0.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t know how you’d measure driving “goodness”, but I expect the distribution would be something like exponential (there are billions of non-drivers, and only a few rally/stunt drivers). So the average is likely to be higher than the median.