Is chicago right for me?

JHS
Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:33:51 +0000

I think greenblue was making the not-very-interesting observation that, in any population, about half of the population will be “below average” (really, below median) for any quality that’s measured across that population. So, if you measured “love of learning”, half of the students at Chicago would have less “love of learning” than the other half. Of course, what beefs may have meant is that s/he’s closer to the median for some other population --say, high-testing, prestige-hungry high school seniors – where the median might be below the Chicago median. It’s all a little silly.
I suspect the relevant question is not whether you would rather read Plato than hang out at a bar on Saturday night, it’s whether you would be terribly upset to find yourself discussing Plato (or math concepts) at a bar on Saturday night. As unalove says, it’s easy to find people to hang out at a bar with, but as phuriku suggests, it’s not necessarily easy to avoid talking about brainy stuff.