@Nicholas That is not enterily true. A Couple weeks back Google updated, both WMT and Analytics.
Historically Google would average the position of all links displaying under every search query. Going forward they will only average the top link for each search query.
ex. If, when Dr. Jones searches for 'gloves', your links appear in position 1, 3, and 6. then Dr. Smith searches for 'gloves' and your links appear in position 2, 3, and 7 the average position would have been 3.6. (22/7) Now, under the new averaging system it would be 1.5.(3/2)
for more info...
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/update-to-top-search-queries-data.html