below average

“Using the final FiveThirtyEight numbers, national polls appear to be off by 2.3% points and polls in swing states about 2.5% on average. These are below average errors, e.g., the average error in the last week’s polls for all presidential elections between 1952 and 2020 is 2.5%.”

Temperatures are expected to drop 10 to 15 degrees below average for this time of year Saturday, with highs for downtown L.A. and the surrounding valleys in the low to mid-60s, Wofford said.

Health services in all four UK nations started the pandemic with the number of beds in ICU and staffing levels well below average compared to other rich countries.

The think tank, the Institute for Government, says this is below average for civil servants which in 2022 was 14% and 15.5% for the UK working population.

Sunshine amounts overall across the UK were just below average but for Scotland and Northern Ireland it was sunnier with 18% and 17% more sunshine respectively.