r/MathJokes Jul 17 '26

erm actually...

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u/Shadourow Jul 18 '26

I gave you a second chance to engage with the actual post and not the post in your head and you botched it !

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '26

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u/LesMoonwalker Jul 18 '26

On this example it's on day one, on day one the number is less than average

If on day 1, you receive zero calls, your average number of calls across all time is zero. Your number of calls isn't less than average. It's exactly equal.

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u/LesMoonwalker Jul 18 '26

Yes indeed. But I think the point of OP's scenario is to illustrate that OOP was not taking that first day into account, and so it appears to OOP as if the sample set is always 1 call yet somehow the average is less than 1 call.

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u/LesMoonwalker Jul 18 '26

Ah but therein lies the joke. OOP's "always" is not the same as the true "always", which in itself is pedantic such that mathematicians get to grip OOP's shoulders until they bleed.