How clever are you compared to the rest of CUK?

[deckster]

I'm just surprised that anybody voted for anything other than the 'top 1%' option. I thought an unshakeable belief on ones own superiority was a required personality trait for a contractor.

[PRC1964]

I ticked the top 1% option.

Because I'm not clever enough to count higher than one.

[SallyAnne]

I voted "below average"

[Board Game Geek]

Sally Anne posted : I voted "below average

Is the correct answer, which I also voted as well.

The reason being that it would be statistically wrong to choose anything else.

By virtue of not having any reliable means of gauging the intelligence of others, the only thing you can correctly state with more reliability is that "other people are more intelligent than you".

Statistically speaking, a group of other people will always contain enough samples to confirm your statement.

However, by limiting yourself to saying that you are in the 1%, you effectively stack the odds of probability against yourself, because you are saying that out of a group of unknown size, you are within the top 1%.

The odds on such a statement are not as favourable as the more people are intelligent than me odds.

Sally, you chose wisely :-)

I bet the 1%'ers are kicking themselves now

[Churchill]

Is the correct answer, which I also voted as well.

The reason being that it would be statistically wrong to choose anything else.

By virtue of not having any reliable means of gauging the intelligence of others, the only thing you can correctly state with more reliability is that "other people are more intelligent than you".

Statistically speaking, a group of other people will always contain enough samples to confirm your statement.

However, by limiting yourself to saying that you are in the 1%, you effectively stack the odds of probability against yourself, because you are saying that out of a group of unknown size, you are within the top 1%.

The odds on such a statement are not as favourable as the more people are intelligent than me odds.

Sally, you chose wisely :-)

I bet the 1%'ers are kicking themselves now

Oh dear...

[BrowneIssue]

What is intelligence anyway ?

Remembering to ask your team members if they are eligible to enter the competition before the filming starts...

...Gail

[stingman123]

OK, I was making a point it's unlikely to average out to anything near what it should be, given the high egos. I realise we won't know that until everyone registered posts, and that is unlikely to happen. Having said that a sample of 30 usually appoximates to normality, so when we get there the result is likely to be similar to the whole population.

edit: we know have a population of 30 (not randomly selected) but 11 are in the top percentile.

Eh?

[TimberWolf]

I wasn't sure what clever was so played safe and voted for the answer with the most votes.

p.s. being clever isn't very clever.