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.”

Published by David Yamane

Sociologist at Wake Forest U, student of gun culture, tennis player, racket stringer (MRT), whisk(e)y drinker, bow-tie wearer, father, husband. Not necessarily in that order.

2 thoughts on “QOTD on The Problem with Averages

    1. 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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