I thought your comment was implying this statistic wasn't really a big deal when you average it over the whole population. I was trying to argue that a simple a

I thought your comment was implying this statistic wasn't really a big deal when you average it over the whole population. I was trying to argue that a simple average is misleading, and it is a big deal. If "in expectation" is a well-defined statistical term or something and I misunderstood, my bad.