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Re:How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented by rdancer on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:34AM (#11172926)
The average person has 1 testicle an 1 ovary.

That one is obvious.

But you have less obvious non-representative means: average # of sex partners (Pareto distribution), average life expectancy (bathtub curve), average autism-spectrum quotient (camel curve). In all these cases the averages obscure, rather that elucidate.

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Re:How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented by VladKovac on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:13AM (#11174904)
I mean if you intentionally increase the entropy of your model, sure. But knowing the average person has 1 testicle and 1 ovary is still better than if you really didn't know anything about that before.
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