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>Here’s something that’ll bake your noodle: what if you’re not as clever as you think you are, and due to the DunkinDonuts-Keurig effect, you don’t know you’re one of the stupid ones?

This is actually something I'm constantly preoccupied with. I've assumed the "Assume you're one of the stupid ones until proven otherwise" position.

That said, if I had some objective statement that I was somehow below average that would largely suck.

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Below average in what? Nick from gradeschool was the fastest runner in my class, I could never catch him. He was also a very good wrestler for his weight class, I heard he won his highschool division in Las Vegas. Nick had dyslexia, I didn't know that at the time, but I was quite smug that I could read better than Nick.

I think it's a safe bet that by some objective measure or other, you're below average. (As am I, and the rest of us.)

Don't worry, I expect there'll be some other equally objective measure by which you're above average.

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