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Old 06-16-2025, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by FredMitchell View Post
A statistician probably would not say that. Most usages of "average" are reserved for a set of numbers, as in the average number of testicles, ...

An "average" person is one that is common, or ordinary, neither of which would be true for a human with only one of the body parts.
Huh? No wonder I flunked statistics, I thought I'd signed up for a Spanish class.