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> 5.7M The number of people that rode the New York City subway on an average weekday in 2016. Shouldn't that be: > 5.7M The AVERAGE number of people that rode
by michaelcampbell 7y ago
> 5.7M The number of people that rode the New York City subway on an average weekday in 2016.
Shouldn't that be:
> 5.7M The AVERAGE number of people that rode the New York City subway on a weekday in 2016.
You're averaging the number of people, not the weekday. (I guess this is a stylistic linguistic choice, but it's always bothered me.)
- nerdponx 7y agoWhy so? Very likely they took every weekend ridership and averaged them together. If anything, "averaging the day" makes more sense than "averaging the people". The latter would be something like "the average person takes the train every other weekend".
- michaelcampbell 7y agoI never said averaging the people; I said averaging the NUMBER of people, which is what's being done. "Averaging the day" makes no LOGICAL sense; what is being summed? Over what is that sum being divided?