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bryanlarsen
on April 11, 2014
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Can You Buy A License to Speed?
93% of drivers think they're a better than average driver.
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azth
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While I know what you're getting at, it is possible to have X > 50% of a sample be better (or worse) than the average -- just being pedantic :)
bagels
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Amazingly... (assuming normal distribution) more than half of them are probably correct.
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