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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just chiming in as another guy who works in AI who agrees with this assessment.

But it's a little bit worrisome that we all seem to think we're in the 10%.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it's a little bit worrisome that we all seem to think we're in the 10%.

A bit like how when you poll drivers on how good they think they are at driving, the vast majority say they're better than average lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's possible though, if there are some really bad drivers screwing the average.

Edit: it's probably even true in this case, it just depends on how you define 'good'. For example if you define it by getting tickets, only 36% of drivers are issued tickets. The average number of tickets issued is > 0 but the majority of drivers aren't issued tickets, the average is skewed, because most drivers are at 0.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know how you'd measure driving "goodness", but I expect the distribution would be something like exponential (there are billions of non-drivers, and only a few rally/stunt drivers). So the average is likely to be higher than the median.