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.”
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.”
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Mathematicians should stay in their lane. Average person has two breasts and one testicle.
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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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