• grayman@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I mentioned it because I say “The average person has less than 1 testicle.”… Also The average person has less than 2 legs… 2 arms… 2 breasts… etc. One of my favorite eye rolling stupid joke.

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            1 year ago

            I have a ton of legs. Waayyy more than 2.

            What can I say? They were cheap, and I love chicken.

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        1 year ago

        There are more women than men

        [CITATION NEEDED]

        Also, 1 is correct if we consider significant figures. It may be slightly less, but rounded to the nearest whole number is most certainly 1.

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    1 year ago

    It’s scary enough that we have one skeleton inside and now I have to worry about the potential for two of them?! How am I supposed to sleep

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      1 year ago

      Do you understand how averages work?

      If there are 8 billion people on this world and each one has one skeleton in them, then the average number of skeletons is one. If even one of those 8 billion people have two skeletons in them, then the average is slightly more than one.

      So the average is more than one for pregnant people, but also for all people as a whole.

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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry to burst everyone’s bubble but this doesn’t make sense. The average person is not pregnant. Therefore the average person does not have more than one skeleton in their body.

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      1 year ago

      It’s the average amount, meaning that if one person out of the entire world was pregnant, the average would be technically more than one, even in the slightest degree.

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        I think even on balance, considering fractions of skeletons in whole people, you’re going to end up with more than one skeleton per person despite some of those people missing bones or limbs.

        It’s like one sixth of a percent more than 1:1 if there are 135 million babies born each year on earth, but that’s not nothing.

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          Yeah that’s kinda the point I was getting at. With a baseline of 1 and the 100% probability of 1 person out of 8 billion being pregnant, it will always technically be more than 1.