Message Forum: Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate

Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate

Posted By: Sam, on host 24.61.194.240
Date: Saturday, June 8, 2002, at 19:54:22
In Reply To: Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate posted by Dave on Saturday, June 8, 2002, at 19:01:39:

> > I like how 83.4% of everybody has an above-average
> >vocabulary.
>
> Anytime you ask people to rate themselves you're going to get inflated numbers. People almost invariably think higher of themselves than others do.

Yup. I started a post earlier today, but I couldn't complete my thoughts to my satisfaction and dumped it. But I was trying to hypothesize about what things people might *not* think better of themselves than is realistic. I wonder if most people would consider that they have below average artistic talent, or below average avoidance of procrastination, etc. Only one way to find out. Time to start a series of polls.

Replies To This Message

Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Dave - Sun, 6/9/2002, 15:49:49
- Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Issachar - Mon, 6/10/2002, 10:22:22
  - Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Stephen - Mon, 6/10/2002, 10:49:49
    - Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Dave - Mon, 6/10/2002, 21:32:59
- Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Ellmyruh - Sun, 6/9/2002, 22:10:48
  - Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Don the Monkeyman - Thu, 6/20/2002, 22:33:03
    - Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Wes - Thu, 6/20/2002, 23:13:34
      - Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Don the Monkeyman - Sat, 6/29/2002, 16:08:25
    - Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Ellmyruh - Thu, 6/20/2002, 22:44:54
      - Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate - Arley - Thu, 6/20/2002, 22:56:35

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