Unexceptional Agent

A Unexceptional Agent is an agent of average performance.

References

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mediocre#Adjective
- Ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality;
  1. I'm pretty good at tennis but only mediocre at racquetball.

(Rosen, 1981) ⇒ Sherwin Rosen. (1981). “The Economics of Superstars.” In: The American economic review.
- QUOTE: ... activities where Superstars are encountered. Lesser talent often is a poor substitute for greater talent. The worse it is the larger the sustainable rent accruing to higher quality sellers because demand for the better sellers increases more than proportionately: hearing a succession of mediocre singers does not add up to a single outstanding performance. If a surgeon is 10 percent more successful in saving lives than his fellows, most people would be willing to pay more than a 10 percent premium for his services. A company involved in a $30 million law suit is rash to scrimp on the legal talent it engages.

(Mill, 1859) ⇒ John Stuart Mill. (1859). “On Liberty."
- QUOTE: whatever homage may be professed, or even paid, to real or supposed mental superiority, the general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ... But they are always a mass, that is to say, collective mediocrity. And what is a still greater novelty, the mass do not now take their opinions from dignitaries in Church or State, from ostensible leaders, or from books. Their thinking is done for them by men much like themselves, addressing them or speaking in their name, on the spur of the moment, through the newspapers. I am not complaining of all this. I do not assert that anything better is compatible, as a general rule, with the present low state of the human mind. But that does not hinder the government of mediocrity from being mediocre government. No government by a democracy or a numerous aristocracy, either in its political acts or in the opinions, qualities, and tone of mind which it fosters, ever did or could rise above mediocrity,