Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- A Few Things I'm Pretty Sure About. He's posted this before but worth the read (or re-read).
- Is Curt Cignetti the most valuable coach in college football? Interesting point - a student that attends games is more likely to become a donor post graduation. Cigetti's true impact won't be known for generations to come.
- Sahil Bloom's 35 lessons from 35 years. Good advice, (HT A Layman's Blog)
- News you can use: How did TV's get so cheap? I feel more informed for having read that.
About being ‘below average’:
ReplyDeletethe whole may not be a straight line distribution from top to bottom with a wide disparity between being at 10% and 90%, it may be a bell curve where many of those ‘below average’ are indistinguishable from those ranked above them.
Example: the school I graduated from required a 3.0 to do so. I was not just below average there, I was the person who graduated with exactly a 3.0, at the very bottom of the list. 48 yrs later I retired after an entirely successful career, a ‘top five’ outcome by any metric.
“How to lie with statistics.”
SP RN
Not a big fan of averages either. I'd consider myself in the top 10% in pool, hiking, reading, maybe cards, and understanding fiber optic networks but in many other things I'm in the bottom 10%. What my "average" is reported as depends on what factors are considered.
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