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To: Lane3 who wrote (5867)	1/30/2007 10:49:11 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

I think your right in that most people saying "I am a better than average driver" would be referring to better than the median, not the mean. Only a very few would mean the mean in this context. Maybe in other contexts it would be more common, so I don't think the point is totally useless, just not very relevant to the issue it was raised to address. The point in the response is relevant to a lot of things. I can think of some areas of driving which I think I am above average in, but other areas (parallel parking, and to a lesser extent other low speed maneuvers in tight places) where I'm clearly below average). I (like 80% of the population <g>) think I'm above average but that's only because I don't put much weight in my weak areas, and also because there are a lot of really bad drivers out there. "Above average" doesn't require you to be all that good of a driver.