<p>This thread is pretty lame. I’m not gonna lie. It comes across as very emo. </p>
<p>Two points: </p>
<p>First, you obviously shouldn’t compare your statistics to the national average. Everyone grows up in a different environment, with different advantages. If you’re going to a public school, then the best way to deem whether your statistics are average or above or below is likely to compare it with the average of your school. The reason for this is, of course, because the people in your public school have probably had the same advantages as you. With a private school it’s a little different… there can be a lot more diversity there.</p>
<p>Second, it doesn’t make sense to translate “average scores” into “average human being” in the first place. It’s just silly. It makes no sense. There are a ton of of people with high grades and SATs who are just total dunces. </p>
<p>What’s important to notice here is that the angst and prejudice displayed in this thread are indicative of a grassroots movement toward defining a new upper class. The angst is the motive, the prejudice the means. People think that the OP served a good purpose by lifting the haunting concerns of mediocrity off the minds of his fellow posters. On the contrary, he (or ‘she’, but let’s assume ‘he’) only elevated the “community average” by alienating the far more numerous “national average”. If this were not such an esoteric community, relative to the national population, then the OP would have received a majority disapproval rather than a unanimous applause. When approbation becomes self-approbation it is important to question the plausibility of the bias.</p>