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source: www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmav3/why-tiny-dicks-might-come-back-into-fashion
When I think of the girls he might like I feel so boring and ugly like holy shit
That’s not quite how averages work.
There are three main types of averages: arithmetic mean (what people usually mean if they don’t specify a type), median, and mode.
The arithmetic mean is calculated by adding up all the values, and dividing by the total number of individuals measured. For instance, if ten people can speak 700 million words (this is a lot of words, way more than in any language on Earth) apiece of an alien language and no one else can speak any, this power would allow you to speak one word.
The median is calculated by ordering the values from least to greatest, then choosing the one in the middle of the list (if there are two, you take the mean of those two). If 3.5 billion people know 700 million words of the alien language, 3.5 billion people know one word, and one person knows fifteen, the median speaker knows fifteen words. This doesn’t change if the 3.5 billion people who know no words all learn fourteen words, because the speaker whose word knowledge is in the middle still knows fifteen.
The mode is the most commonly occurring value. If 2 billion people know 75,000 words, 2 billion people know 3,000 words, and 3 billion people know no words, the modal speaker knows no words.
tl;dr: Being average will not give you superhuman abilities. If your power makes you human average, the absolute best case scenario has you as good as the best human, and that is very unlikely.
Your super power is that you are average, at everything you do.
Happy Birthday Harry
Harry Potter…..eh. No, I do love Harry, I do and there is a lot we can learn from him and a lot we can appreciate, it’s just odd as the central character of the story one of his best and most important qualities—is that he’s like everybody else. But that’s also so crucial, that he’s not special. Yes he’s got magic (but so does everyone), he’s skilled at Quidditch (but Voldemort could actually fly), he wasn’t particularly smart (Hermione) or charming (Cedric), but he also wasn’t a complete lost boy (Neville), he was average—and yet he changed and saved the world in ways big and small. So he’s a bit underwhelming, which made him so powerful.
While some of the biggest aspects of his life were not his choice, others were. One of the biggest and most crucial choices he made was his being kind and in his friendships with others. He didn’t like Draco early on, and liked Ron; he maintained a friendship with Hagrid once he was more settled into his Hogwarts life and while not particularly close, would hang out with Neville and didn’t lash out at Ginny or Colin (Colin!!) or Dobby, even competing against Fleur, Krum and Cedric (who he had a personal, one-sided rivalry against), he still was kind and friendly and always tried to do the right thing.
Harry was never perfect. He didn’t always listen, let his emotions get to him more times than there are pages in the series, he didn’t think things thru and he could be very close-minded. While he did not mature in all these accounts by the end of the series, overall he did mature and learn to see the world outside himself; being there for Hermione when Ron was with Lavender, sacrificing himself to save a world he would never get to be in. Over the series Harry grew and learned from (most of) his mistakes. This is crucial as it is important for us to know that one instance won’t ruin your life, and that people are always making mistakes and how to own up to them.
PS My favourite thing about Harry, and one of the things I love the most about the series, is how throughout it, even in his fifth year (as I remember it), every once in a while Harry would pause and meditate a bit on the world around him, how great and beautiful magic is. I love that so much
So Happy Birthday Harry Potter and Happy Birthday JK Rowling