{"id":578,"date":"2012-02-19T14:46:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T14:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charisma.local\/charisma2023\/char1smaSSL\/char1smaSSL\/?post_type=histories&#038;p=578"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:46:03","slug":"the-importance-of-being-average","status":"publish","type":"histories","link":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/histories\/the-importance-of-being-average","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Being Average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n<p>McFall, L (2011) A good, average man: calculation and the limits of statistics in enrolling insurance customers, <em>Sociological Review<\/em> 59:4, pp. 662-684.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo gallery Liz McFall to accompany her article looking at early life insurance agents and the marketing importance of being &#8230; just plain average, A good, average man, the winner of the 2011 Sociological Review prize for outstanding scholarship .  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/histories\/the-importance-of-being-average\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"morelink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[274,263,344,273,613],"class_list":["post-578","histories","type-histories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-images","tag-averageness","tag-insurance","tag-marketing","tag-sales","tag-statistics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/histories\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/histories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/histories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/histories\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/histories\/578\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}