Ed,
You may be right for a select group, but you can't have 90% of everyone be better-than-average; studies show this closer to 50%.

The quote is clearly intended to be humorous, but I suspect Thane's point is the math error (at least 44.4% must be wrong).

Nick


ed pegg wrote:
  "It is like studies that show 90 percent of people think
they are better-than-average drivers. 
   Forty percent of them are wrong." 
    

I'm not sure about that, because of localization effects.

If I picked out 100 of you, and tested each of you at the locales where you
live, I imagine most of you would be in the top 90% for the territory you find
familiar.

--Ed Pegg Jr

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