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From: Wes Groleau on 8 Jun 2010 17:41
On 06-08-2010 17:06, Davoud wrote:
> I read
> just yesterday that 63% of Americans think they are smarter than the
> average American

So 79% of us are correct! I'd say that's pretty smart. :-)

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From: Wes Groleau on 8 Jun 2010 17:42
On 06-08-2010 13:05, JF Mezei wrote:
> improvements are interesting. The gyrospcope, if mechanical, is bound to
> be unreliable part of the phone. Then again, Our lord Jobs expects

Ignore the graphic. It's not mechanical.
If it were, the phone would not fit in your pocket.

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From: John McWilliams on 8 Jun 2010 18:56
Wes Groleau wrote:
> On 06-08-2010 17:06, Davoud wrote:
>> I read
>> just yesterday that 63% of Americans think they are smarter than the
>> average American
>
> So 79% of us are correct! I'd say that's pretty smart. :-)

I used to be good at math, arithmetic, even trig. ... but am whooshing
on the concept here.
Help! Please.

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From: dorayme on 8 Jun 2010 19:27
In article <humhqa$b5l$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> Wes Groleau wrote:
> > On 06-08-2010 17:06, Davoud wrote:
> >> I read
> >> just yesterday that 63% of Americans think they are smarter than the
> >> average American
> >
> > So 79% of us are correct! I'd say that's pretty smart. :-)
>
> I used to be good at math, arithmetic, even trig. ... but am whooshing
> on the concept here.
> Help! Please.

If there were only 100 Americans and one of them was almost
omnintelligent and the rest almost totally moronic and 63 thought
they were more than average-American-smart, at least 62 could be
wrong and only those of the 38 rest who actually had an opinion
on the matter would be correct.

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dorayme
From: Wes Groleau on 8 Jun 2010 19:30
On 06-08-2010 18:56, John McWilliams wrote:
> Wes Groleau wrote:
>> On 06-08-2010 17:06, Davoud wrote:
>>> I read
>>> just yesterday that 63% of Americans think they are smarter than the
>>> average American
>>
>> So 79% of us are correct! I'd say that's pretty smart. :-)
>
> I used to be good at math, arithmetic, even trig. ... but am whooshing
> on the concept here.

First things first--it's a joke.

Now to ruin it by explaining it...

The definition of average means that 50% are smarter. (Oversimplified)

So, 63 of a hundred think they are above average, but 13 of those are
wrong. That makes the other fifty correct.

Fifty is 79% of 63.

Of course, there are details that make my analysis wrong,
but it's a joke, so who cares?

--
Wes Groleau

There ain't no right wing,
there ain't no left wing.
There's only you and me and we just disagree.
(apologies to Jim Krueger)
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