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Re:Ask HN: What’s the stupidest lie people believe? (no judg... by raxxorraxor on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @04:47AM (#32409333)
I believe normal exists. The lie is that normal is necessarily better than abnormal.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s the stupidest lie people believe? (no judg... by jesuscript on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:43AM (#32409613)
The only quality that normal has over abnormal is a majority. Otherwise the labels flip. Probably better to define the majority as typical, but somehow our languages can’t seem to not define the minority pejoratively as atypical, abnormal.

Winners and losers, so you are right, winning and losing definitely exists.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s the stupidest lie people believe? (no judg... by MerelyMortal on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:05AM (#32413223)
I don't believe there is normal, just average.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s the stupidest lie people believe? (no judg... by ksaj on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:37AM (#32413783)
I would say there is no normal. Only normalized.
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