The 99% Rule

I'm donning my teflon/asbestos underwear today. On the way to work I ponder the 99% rule.

99% of all people are morons. While this is easily said, and almost as easily recognized and understood, it has some pretty far reaching consequences:

a) 99% of the people that drive on the roads behave like morons (q.e.d)
b) 99% of the people that you work with are also morons (q.e.d)
c) 99% of the people in your family are also morons ( 99% means 9 out of 10 people - so if your family has 10 members - 9 are morons).

Ok, c) might be too much. Statistics allows us to shift around a bit (if I sample a 1000 people, I have room for 10 +/- 1 or 2 genuine intelligent people). But it also means that if you look around (like at your family) and you don't see morons, then somewhere else in the universe, there's a bigger concentration of morons.

And how about time ? is it that 99% of all people are morons 100% of the time - or maybe just 99% ? I don't know about that. On gentle days, and believe me today is one, I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt and like to say 99% of all people are morons at some point in time and on other days, it's 99% of all people are morons all the time, except that it is exhausting to be a moron all the time, so they have to take breaks too.