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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1591485" data-attributes="member: 259">Perhaps I'm missing something, but I was under the impression that a score of 10-11 represented, by the rules, the average ability of a human being--as in, that's the baseline for the whole ability score system. If that's the case, then the average human should be built on something like a 15-point buy, with some humans with fewer points and some humans with more points.&nbsp;It's impossible (again, by definition) for most people to be above average.&nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;edit: In the last sentence, assume that I'm using &quot;median&quot; for my definition of &quot;average,&quot; and it makes sense. If you're talking about means, however, then theoretically you could have most people be above average by having a couple of real nincompoops wighing down the low end of things. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Also, I screwed up a number above and corrected it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 1591485, member: 259"] Perhaps I'm missing something, but I was under the impression that a score of 10-11 represented, by the rules, the average ability of a human being--as in, that's the baseline for the whole ability score system. If that's the case, then the average human should be built on something like a 15-point buy, with some humans with fewer points and some humans with more points. It's impossible (again, by definition) for most people to be above average. Daniel edit: In the last sentence, assume that I'm using "median" for my definition of "average," and it makes sense. If you're talking about means, however, then theoretically you could have most people be above average by having a couple of real nincompoops wighing down the low end of things. :) Also, I screwed up a number above and corrected it. [/QUOTE]

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