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Originally posted by BigGreen
Is it as bad as muscular mike says? IMO, no...remember you're dealing with a self-selecting group here. Compared to the average joe, hell, even your average fitness enthusiast, i'd say you're ahead of the pack. However, even a cursory glance through these posts reveals that your average member on this board is a wealth of knowledge with a fair amount of training experience and results to show. A good analogy might be thinking of high school kids who post on a college admissions discussion board. While in reality an 1100 on your SAT's puts you firmly above average and then some, on a self-selecting board (where its members and posters are likely, by the nature of them simply being there, to be a very unrepresentative sample of people who are quite passionate and involved in the topic) a student scoring a "mere" 1100 will likely be ridiculed to the point of being called illiterate, even though that's very much so not the case, as all the students scoring in the 14 and 1500's, by nature of their competitiveness and involvedness flock to these boards, making up a disproportionate share of the members. Hope that analogy sheds some light onto the matter.
well appreciated m8, u just made my day :P