QOTD on The Problem with Averages

From Hannah Fry’s essay in The New Yorker: on “What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves: “As the mathematician Ian Stewart points out in ‘Do Dice Play God?’ (Basic), the average person has one breast and one testicle.”

2 comments

    • I am not that kind of doctor but I believe you are correct, sir, medically/physiologically. I wonder if the writer of the essay has misattributed what the mathematician actually said using the language more colloquially

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