Am I an Average Man ~ What is the Average Man Like ?
What are the specific characteristics and statistics of the average man and his life
People seem to take some solace in finding out they are average - quite why I’m unsure - who aspires to be mediocre ?
For me it’s the grey area in-between I’m happy personally at both ends of the scale but being neither one thing nor another is just banal.
Anyhoo, here’s some great statistics so you can judge for yourself just what the average man is like, who does he do and have
Very interesting !
Am I an Average Man ?
He’s about 39 and has a life expectancy of 76 years so already passed the half way mark
Guys spend half a year of their lives looking at women
He is 5ft 9in and weighs in at 13 stone and wears trousers with a 37 inch waist
They own 3 television sets and spend almost 50% of their free time watching TV
If he’s single he spends £25 a week on alcohol but if married only half that amount
70% of average men would sooner play video games than have sex
Their grandfathers sperm count was twice what theirs is
He thinks the most important aspect in a relationship is love (a romantic then)
He will eat 35,000 biscuits during his life
We spend 125 (24 hour) days of our lives shaving
There are plenty more but that certainly gives you an idea. There is a danger reading too much into average figures, I always think the mean figure can be more informative, especially when smaller sample sizes are used - extreme single figures can skew results and give misleading impressions.
This however draws on huge amounts of data so is pretty realistic.
So how do you compare ? Are You Mr Average
Am I Mr Average ?
Well, I seem to match a couple or so of them but thankfully not the more depressing ones.
On a more interesting and psychological note: I wonder why so many people find comfort in being average even when it’s a bad thing ?
Is their psyche such that they prefer comparisons to the lowest common denominator rather than some more challenging or aspirational ?
I am now going to write up the one for the girls !
Non-Averagely Yours
Rod
This was an experiment - see the results
Annie Flinn said,
August 1, 2009 @ 7:08 pm
Rod,
I think people are looking more to see if they are normal, rather than average. Just as people (I use the term lightly) litter, they crave to know that they are not abberations.
Annie
Rod said,
August 1, 2009 @ 8:13 pm
Annie,
fair point but isn’t it much the same thing, ‘normal’ coming from the ‘norm’ which is the most usual etc
a definition of ‘normal’ is close to the average or not straying far either side of it so once again is there comfort in mediocrity ?
Should a student be pleased simply to achieve average results - a desire to be average (unless there are challenges in life which make that a real goal) strikes me as uninspired to say the least and hardly fitting with dreams especially those of our youth.
Who ever dreamed of playing third division football or having a record that reached number 20 in the charts.
I think it’s an excuse myself - people look for something or somebody that is worse than themselves and it allows people to tell themselves they could be worse.
Personally I judge myself against my betters.
Aim high and fall flat on your face that’s what I always say
Best
Rod
the dinosaur said,
August 1, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
Rod, on the basis of these statistics I’m not “average” but I consider that a good thing. At the drawing class I belong to, this friday the conversation turned to whether we were all eccentrics, out of the fourteen of us nobody put up an argument that they weren’t, on the contrary the general opinion was that everyone was happy to be regarded as eccentric, who wants to be boring and predictable?
Rod said,
August 2, 2009 @ 8:53 am
Dino,
well said !
It has been said, once or twice, that I may be just a little eccentric as well !
One of the nicest things anbbody’s ever said about me
Cheers
Rod
juli said,
August 2, 2009 @ 10:40 pm
I think the desire to be average stems from childhood, where to be average was the way to survive comfortably. Think about it: who were the kids that got picked on in the playground at your school? The non-average. Exceptionally intelligent kids are labelled geeks. Kids with any sort of problem attract name-calling and bullying. Children very quickly learn the security of being one of the in-crowd, which usually involves being the same as the rest of the in-crowd. This sticks until you leave school, and I reckon for many people the security of ebing ‘average’ sticks throughout life, particularly if they did suffer when they were younger for being out of the ordinary.
Personally I think it’s sad - I’d be desperately worried if I was average! I like being me, and have no desire to be someone else’s clone.
Rod said,
August 3, 2009 @ 8:02 am
Juli,
now that really is a good point and one I’d not thought of.
The Cloak of Anonimity !
Of course, being average means you blend in, you don’t stickout. That also shows when you get a group of people and many will not voice an opinion but just keep their thoughts to themselves - lack of confidence and, once again, anonimty - blending in !
Very interesting Juli - food for further thought
I’d be desperately worried if I was average!
Juli, I like the sound of that, what with the regular washing of underwear mentioned in the last comment you sound like quite a catch
Cheers
Rod