Comment rows are counted in the NR.

1. Is there some flag to ignore comments?
2. How can you limit the range in AWK, not like piping | sed -e '1d', to ignore comment rows?

Example

$ awk '{sum+=$3} END {avg=sum/NR} END {print avg}' coriolis_data
0.885491                          // WRONG divided by 11, should be by 10
$ cat coriolis_data 
#d-err-t-err-d2-err
.105    0.005   0.9766  0.0001  0.595   0.005
.095    0.005   0.9963  0.0001  0.595   0.005
.115    0.005   0.9687  0.0001  0.595   0.005
.105    0.005   0.9693  0.0001  0.595   0.005
.095    0.005   0.9798  0.0001  0.595   0.005
.105    0.005   0.9798  0.0001  0.595   0.005
.095    0.005   0.9711  0.0001  0.595   0.005
.110    0.005   0.9640  0.0001  0.595   0.005
.105    0.005   0.9704  0.0001  0.595   0.005
.090    0.005   0.9644  0.0001  0.595   0.005