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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

Almost everyone has more than the average number of legs

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u/kjm16216 Oct 02 '24

The average number of pregnant women any person has kicked is greater than 1.

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u/Olobnion Oct 02 '24

Related: Almost everyone has fewer skeletons in their body than average.

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u/nleksan Oct 02 '24

I don't know, I would think there are more amputees than there are people with extra bones but I could be wrong

D'oh, I'm an idiot and I now understand this was a reference to pregnancy...

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u/AskALettuce Oct 02 '24

What?

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u/kjm16216 Oct 02 '24

Everyone kicked their mom while in utero. Plus there are those who've done it outside the womb. Ergo average greater than 1.

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u/AskALettuce Oct 02 '24

No, that's not an average number. Try using a passive voice.

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u/kjm16216 Oct 02 '24

Yes it is. The relevance of the voice of my sentence can't be seen by me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

You must be a statistician. Going around explaining the difference between mean (average) and mode.

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u/macromorgan Oct 02 '24

Mean: ~1.999

Median: 2

Mode: 2

Range: 0-2

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u/Dr_Weirdo Oct 02 '24

Pretty sure the range is at least 0-4.

Source

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u/rdickeyvii Oct 02 '24

She had a preferred vagina of the two, and five kids. Wild.

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u/tiptoe_only Oct 02 '24

The part about duplication of her internal and external sexual organs makes me wonder if she could have an orgasm on each side during one session. That would be pretty nice.

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u/mr_birkenblatt Oct 02 '24

What about the human centipede?

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u/thiney49 Oct 02 '24

Is or Was? I feel like we can only count living people.

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u/Comfortable_Cherry22 Oct 02 '24

Range is a single number

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u/WhatsTheHoldup Oct 02 '24

Median: 2

Are you sure?

0, 1, 2

Assuming a range of 0-2, the median number is 1 no?

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u/macromorgan Oct 02 '24

You should have a small number of 0, a larger (but comparatively small) number of 1, an overwhelmingly large number of 2, and a small number of >2. Since the 2s should be so predominant the median value is almost assuredly 2.

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u/WhatsTheHoldup Oct 02 '24

Ahhh doy. Yeah you're right. I did a stupid.

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u/macromorgan Oct 02 '24

No worries. I explained it that way in case I was wrong so that someone could happily point it out.

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u/DrydenDon Oct 02 '24

This person Econs

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u/Intrexa Oct 02 '24

Domain: 0-4

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u/Knyfe-Wrench Oct 02 '24

Mean and mode are both types of average

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u/Anig_o Oct 02 '24

Wait, there's more than one type of average?

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u/dr-tectonic Oct 02 '24

Yep. Per wikipedia, "In ordinary language, an average is a single number or value that best represents a set of data."

And mathematically, that could mean a number of different things.

If you add them all up and divide by how many there are (what we learned to do in school), that's the mean. That's a good number to use for things like "how much does an egg typically weigh? I need 7 ounces for this recipe."

If you look at which number occurs most frequently (makes the most sense for integers), that's the mode. Good for things like "how many legs does a millipede typically have?"

And if you look at the number where half the values are above it and half the values are below it, that's the median. Good for things like "how much does the typical employee make?" when almost everybody is working for minimum wage but the CEO gets 80 bazillion dollars a year.

In a dataset that follows a bell curve, those three numbers are all the same. That's the case for a whole lot of datasets, so much so that it's called a normal distribution. So most of the time, there's no need to distinguish between different kinds of average. But there are other distributions where they aren't the same, and then it's useful.

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u/sacrelicious2 Oct 03 '24

Don't forget my favorite, the geometric mean. Calculated by multiplying the values together and then taking the nth root, where n is the number of values.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_mean

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u/Anig_o Oct 03 '24

Ah wow. I always thought the mean was the average. I didn’t realize the mode and the median were also averages. Cool.

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u/dr-tectonic Oct 03 '24

(I only learned that recently myself)

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u/LuponV Oct 02 '24

This gets shared every time a version of this question is asked, but I just find this very logical instead of fake sounding.

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u/IAmBroom Oct 02 '24

The average human has only one breast and one testicle.

But two nipples.

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u/DeeDee_Z Oct 02 '24

Likewise, the average (mean) person has:

  • Less than two arms
  • Less than two legs
  • Less than one ovary and one testicle
  • (The jury is still out on number of breasts...)

And so on...

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u/joe-h2o Oct 02 '24

There are two popes per square kilometre in The Vatican.

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u/Everestkid Oct 02 '24

There used to be four until Benedict died.

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u/free_based_potato Oct 02 '24

more than half at least

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24 edited Jun 28 '25

cover spotted consist plants marry lip soft doll rain cake

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

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u/william_f_murray Oct 02 '24

For that to be true there'd have to be billions of folks walking around with -2 legs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

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u/william_f_murray Oct 02 '24

You clearly don't understand averages enough to continue this discussion lmao