Well in this case, you can also do the normal, in other words adding the differences. The poster asked about finding the differences between points in N-dimensi

Well in this case, you can also do the normal, in other words adding the differences. The poster asked about finding the differences between points in N-dimensional space in general (he didn't specify for the author's example). But the idea is that your means wouldn't be bucketed into just a couple of values, but have a larger distribution. In any case, it doesn't matter much for this problem, but if you scored it by word count rather than a simple 1 or 0, it would matter.