Are you above average? Is your child an A student?
Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert?
Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.
The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don’t even question it.
That assumption, says Harvard’s Todd Rose, is spectacularly—and scientifically—wrong
The average-size-fits-all model ignores our differences and fails at recognizing talent.
In the early 1940s, gynecologists made an alabaster model of a typical young female by averaging the proportions of thousands of women.
The statue, named Norma, was hailed as a physical ideal.
Yet when a newspaper ran a contest fewer than 40 applicants even came close.
He recommends the three principles of individuality.
#1The Jaggedness principle (talent is always jagged)
#2The Context principle (each person has a unique set of behavioral “if-then signatures”- more meaningful than any overarching characterization)
#3The Pathways principle (diverse approaches can achieve equivalent results)
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[Source Book – The end of average]