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There is an average age that an American has their first child. No amount of 3+ syllable words negates that obvious fact...
by DiggyJohnson 3y ago
There is an average age that an American has their first child. No amount of 3+ syllable words negates that obvious fact...
- mistrial9 3y agono - in real life, each person has a child at some age. An aggregate of those numbers is still showing individual lives. Similar reasoning for "2.5 children" .. that is "average" but exactly zero people out of millions have 2.5 children in reality.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoI’m not claiming that’s there such thing as an average person, just that there is an average age that a person has their first child.
- dekhn 3y agoSo what? You're just saying the mean of a list of integers can be a rational number. There are a number of other ways to synthesize "Average" people from summary statistics, but none of this is worth being pedantic about.
- mistrial9 3y agono sorry, its a beginner mistake to think that there are average people at all. For example, people who are not adults.. there is no meaning to "average" for children at 2 years, 6 years, 8 years, 12 years.. they are different. Its not an average.. it is a collection of groups.. Human populations are collections of groups that overlap in characteristics.. there is no "average" person
- mistrial9 3y agofrom the other side, a real number product of mean, average etc. is .. a number. You can do lots of math with numbers, and you will get consistent results in a number sense.. but the model is not the creation
- sethammons 3y agoOn average, everyone has one testicle and one ovary. Cue the quote: there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statics