• roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
    9·
    3 years ago

    Depends what you mean by average. The mean is less than 2. The median is 2. And the mode is 2.

    I would say the average is 2.

    It’s like when people say that the most workers earn less than the average wage. That’s because they calculated the average using the mean, which is misleading in that case. Because of outliers, the median is the appropriate type of average for wages.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 years ago

    It is irrelevant if you have one or two arms, in both cases you can never lick your elbows

    • Alfenstein@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      3 years ago

      I guess humans can have any number of arms. The number of arm don’t change that a person is human. But but the number of arms humans have right now is between 0 and maybe 4? If there is a person with 4 arms.

        • roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
          3·
          3 years ago

          the way this is expressed is “humans typically have two arms”.

          the other statement is " humans can have 0-4 arms".

          so it’s just a matter of choosing words carefully, of using precise language. you can express any of these concepts without any confusion.