"It's a tautology to say that normal people are the most suggestible, since it's because they're the most suggestible that they're the most normal!" - Impro
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- Monad Teodise
this suggests that the difference between suggestible and normal is more connotation than denotation.
- Clare Dibble
I think it's tautology to suggest that normal people even exist. Have you ever met a normal person? I haven't.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Some people are more normal than others.
- Paul Buchheit
Alex, how would you know? Do you have a known standard for normalcy that none have yet attained? I think 'normal' is like 'opposite' in that the term only makes sense if you look at a limited number of axes at a time. Blue is the opposite of red but they're both colors and thus the same. A person normal in every regard would probably be quite unusual for that feat alone.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, I base my opinion on aggregated statistics among other things. After all, how many people do you know who have 2.7 kids?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I like Paul's answer though.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Normal != average
- Kevin Fox
I tend to read "suggestible" as "open to new ideas", causing this quote not to make sense to me.
- Bruce Lewis
What does normal mean then, Kevin?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Normal applies to samples and populations, average applies to individual data points?
- Victor Ganata
If you find someone who fits in to the normal distribution for all characteristics and interests, let me know. I consider someone to not be normal (and this is a good thing, I think normal sucks and doesn't exist) if even one characteristic or interest is outside the norm.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If you're inside the Bell curve, even if you're in one of the tails, you're still technically normal. You can be normal and be nowhere near average. Like, you might be 6 foot 11 inches, and that's technically normal, although that's almost half a foot taller than average. Whereas, if you were 15 foot 11 inches, that's not normal.
- Victor Ganata
True, but with real sample sets in nature, you don't usually get way out there. There are no 15 footers playing in the NBA today.
- Victor Ganata
I'm highly suggestible and have never been normal.
- Ruchira S. Datta
'Average' has tighter bounds than 'normal' in common usage. Everyone who is 'average looking' is 'normal looking' but not everyone who looks normal is average. You can be a normal person without being an average person. Being above or below average doesn't make you abnormal. You'd have to be further along the curve than that.
- Kevin Fox