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I always say to people "Name me one normal person." (They usually can't.) And if they do name one that could qualify: "It's not normal to be normal."
by Qantourisc 11y ago
I always say to people "Name me one normal person." (They usually can't.) And if they do name one that could qualify: "It's not normal to be normal."
- ajuc 11y agoAverage person has half a penis. It doesn't mean stats are useless. It means you have to know how to interprete them.
- douche 11y agoDepends on the time and region you select your sample from. In some provinces of China at different times, the average person might have six tenths of a penis.
- IsaacL 11y agoA related point from geometry is that high-dimensional spheres are "spiky". (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615) E.g. if you have a set of things which vary in many dimensions (even if each element is no more than a set "distance" from normality), very few elements will belong in the "centre" (normal on all dimensions) and most will belong on a spike (wildly extreme in 1 or 2 dimensions).