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Reminds me a joke by Robert Anton Wilson: "You know how dumb an average American is. Well, mathematically speaking, half of them are even dumber than that."
by jyriand 1mo ago
Reminds me a joke by Robert Anton Wilson:
"You know how dumb an average American is. Well, mathematically speaking, half of them are even dumber than that."
- kleiba2 1mo agoAlthough by "average" you usually refer to the mean, not the median.
- lo_zamoyski 1mo agoIn common English, I would say that "average" as used in the quote is understood to be something closer to mode, hence why the joke works, because it trades on the ambiguity of "average" and the difference between mode and mean.