The notion that Joe the Plumber who Owns a Small Business and Makes $250,000/year and Goes to Political Rallies to Question the Candiates–that this dude somehow represents the average American is patently absurd. [...] The “average American” makes more like foedy, fiddy, sisty grand, works in an office, and exists only to amuse the world-spanning, multi-nodal, transpersonal superconsciousness of The Internet on company time.
So says IOZ. Also see The Real America! And just so you know, I waited until I got home before reading and writing this.
October 17, 2008 at 7:18 am
I’m not going to bother trying to explain the methodology – I just accessed a bunch of demographic sites, smashed all the data together, fiddled with the stats where necessary, and came up with the ultimate profile of THE Average American:
She is a white 37 year old who lives in a three person household (with father and child?) in Olathe, Kansas (pop. 118,000), a suburb of Kansas City.
Her family “owns” a home worth . . . well, it used to be worth $120,000. Her annual houshold income is $55,000 per year (data detail: the average between the US average [$48,000] and the average for Olathe [$61,111]).
She has a high school diploma and some post-secondary education, but no Bachelors Degree. She is a Protestant and believes in God, but doesn’t attend church on a weekly basis. She will have nine sex partners over the course of her life (the average for an American woman).
Her household has two cars, two to three TVs (depends on the source you look at), and at least one computer with internet access.
She will eventually find her way to this blog, read this comment, realize that she is the annoited one, and reveal herself to a waiting world as the Ultimate Average American.
She will then run for national office, lose, and host her own TV show.
October 17, 2008 at 6:58 pm
A book about the most average person in America written in 2005 here.