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Whenever you use statistics you are generalizing and likewise the statistics typically don't apply exactly to most people. Everybody is above or below the mean in some way there are almost always data points two standard deviations from the mean... They help us simplify how we think about large populations.

So many little differences can have huge effects on us as individuals that its really only necessary you are different. Failure can only truly be found in seeking to be the same.




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