Yup. You're thinking in terms of numerical average. Like, if Friend A is having no sex, Friend B is having no sex, Friend C is having sex four times a week, and Friend D is having no sex, then the mean is once a week, and A, B, and D are below average.
But the other way of looking at that same data, of course, is the median and the mode are both 0, so in actuality, A, B, and D are average and C is above average. (Probably I weighted towards the first view by using the word "average" in the poll.)
Either way, an interesting data point. (And, of course, it could just be one of those things: everyone assumes everyone else is having more sex. Which is really easy to assume if you're having no sex, but even if you're just having less sex than usual, or less than you think you "should" have, stuff like that, it would still be easy to assume you're below average.)
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But the other way of looking at that same data, of course, is the median and the mode are both 0, so in actuality, A, B, and D are average and C is above average. (Probably I weighted towards the first view by using the word "average" in the poll.)
Either way, an interesting data point. (And, of course, it could just be one of those things: everyone assumes everyone else is having more sex. Which is really easy to assume if you're having no sex, but even if you're just having less sex than usual, or less than you think you "should" have, stuff like that, it would still be easy to assume you're below average.)