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Originally Posted by FredMitchell
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.
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It depends on which kind of average, there are three kinds.
Mean: The most common average, calculated by summing all values in a dataset and dividing by the number of values.
Median: The middle value in a dataset when the values are arranged in order. If there are two middle values, the median is the average of those two.
Mode: The value that appears most frequently in a dataset.
One of each would be the mean. For example, in a group of 100 humans we find there are 100 breasts in total. The mean would be simply 100 breasts /100 people. The result is 1 breast per person.
This is why statistics can be misleading or tell us stupid things. We have to be smarter than the math we do
Plus it was a joke. Just laugh and move on. This is why we cannot have nice things...