Ethiopian airliner down in Africa

[MurphyWasRight]

On average

Heard tell that ex President Bush was very upset when told that about half of american students were below average in math.

There is a spectrum of skills and abilities in every field. The hard part can be drawing a distinction between 'below average' and incompetent.

One other datapoint is that something like 70 percent of drivers consider themselves above average.
While I don't know the stats for pilots, any professional pilots reading this thread consider themselves below average?

Of course mathematicians get upset with generic use of the term average (mean of them) but that is a different thread somewhere in a forum far far away.

Assuming normal distribution 75% of all flights have at least one below average pilot in the cockpit.