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When the world around you seems to have lost its mind.

When up is down, left is right

In is out and forward is a bowl of tuna salad

It doesn’t mean that you are wrong.

Despite the fact that those around you might think that you are…

A recent make-ity up poll,

which despite being make-ity up did include a data set of all humans…

found the average human only to be of average intelligence…

Capable of average insight

They were also of average height,

weight,

And had average inseams.

Made average points and counter points in conversation,

Experienced just the average levels of serotonin when hugged,

And, most strikingly, had only an average knowledge of science.

And, while the average person may think that you wrong about something,

Keep in mind that they have a below average understanding of what is going on in your mind.

Because your mind is an outlier…

You have beaten the averages…

enough so as to make the average analyst question your data point

And you have done so in the most extraordinary way imaginable…

by tuning into

This Week in Science,

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Looming Extinctions

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