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It's a famous saying in in Italy on the problem of losing information when averaging "If one person eats a chicken and another person doesn't eat anything, on
by Recursing 6y ago
It's a famous saying in in Italy on the problem of losing information when averaging
"If one person eats a chicken and another person doesn't eat anything, on average they both ate half a chicken"
Or in a similar way something like:
"If I eat two chickens and you eat none, statistically we both ate one"
- ryanwaggoner 6y agoThis reminds me of this old joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089588
- skocznymroczny 6y agoIn Poland we use "on average, me and my dog have three legs"
- strbean 6y agoIn Latvia, we say "on average, all have no potato." Then we are sad.
- boring_twenties 6y agoIn America we have: "The man who has feet in the freezer, and his head in the oven, on average feels fine!"
- riffraff 6y agoTo expand, it comes originally from a poem from Trilussa[0], a poet which wrote satirical poems in the Roman dialect. I'm afraid they lose a lot in translation. [0] http://www.fotografi.org/studi_settore/polli_di_trilussa.htm http://www.fotografi.org/studi_settore/polli_di_trilussa.htm