| ▲ | MattPalmer1086 8 hours ago |
| I also studied independently at a more advanced level than I was supposed to be at. Not sure I follow why this seems quaint or silly to you. |
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| ▲ | tbrownaw 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Half of all people are above average. (Or maybe a third of all people if you count it as a range rather than a point.) |
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| ▲ | rightbyte 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Only if you assume normal distrubition or similar where median and average are the same. |
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| ▲ | grandempire 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What did it do for you? |
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| ▲ | MattPalmer1086 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I enjoyed it, and it gave me confidence that I was capable of doing some interesting things. My schooling wasn't very inspirational. Still not sure why it seems silly to you. | | |
| ▲ | grandempire 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | What seems silly to me is the particular cultural excitement and optimism around education and liberalism, and the way it was manifest in school, that I lived through as a kid and is now dead. |
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