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Sorry, I'm a little slow today. Can you elaborate on that last statement? Are you invoking a trick meaning to the word "average"?
by cellularmitosis 10y ago
Sorry, I'm a little slow today. Can you elaborate on that last statement? Are you invoking a trick meaning to the word "average"?
- ajdlinux 10y agoThe average number of legs per human, worldwide, is slightly under 2. However, the vast majority of people have 2 legs.
- rfrey 10y agoSince some people have one leg, and some have none, but nobody has three legs, the average number of legs is slightly less than two.
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- InclinedPlane 10y agoMost people (more than 50%) have an above average number of legs, arms, and eyes, but a below average number of nipples. This is because having more than 2 legs, arms, or eyes is exceedingly rare, whereas there's a small number of folks who have 1 or none, which brings the average below 2. Similarly, extra nipples are more common than losing a nipple. It's the difference between median/mode and mean.
- smallnamespace 10y ago'Most people' -> mode 'Average' -> Arithmetic mean Mode < Mean in this case because the distribution is skewed to the left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness#Introduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness#Introduction