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The mode human body contains enough bones to make an entire skeleton. The average human body doesn’t have enough.
The word average can technically refer to arithmetic mean, median, mode, or range. That’s why you were probably taught them at the same time. That’s also why tests like the ACT tend to have a * at the top that says something along the lines of “Unless otherwise stated, the word average indicates arithmetic mean.”
I have never in my life seen it refer to anything but the mean
Because mean is the most common form of average. But, for example, when referring to salaries, the words median and average are often used interchangeably.
Are infinitesimally shaved average bones not bones? Idk who is the bone authority responsible for making that decision.
There are a lot of people missing bones, but I don’t think anyone has extra, so….
Plenty of people do. My sister for example had bones in her feet that never fused and had to have an extra removed. I guess that’s pretty common
My wife has an extra rib above her collarbone.
Some people were born with extra fingers, and sometimes entire extra limbs.
Despite all the “AKcHUaLLy” comments this is probably true.
If the body has 206 bones and the global average is like 205.7, a bone that is even partially complete is still a bone, and it is probably so close to 206 that the missing parts are negligible and distributed across the skeleton anyway. Think about it, how many people do you know that are missing an appendage or a bone by defect? I bet it’s less than 0.5% of everyone you know.
Take my upvote.
I have 2 neighbours is missing a leg, and a family friend missing a finger. I am one of the outliers.
That is a lot of missing bones. How many people would you estimate that you know though? I went to a small high school and I bet out of 500 total I knew 300 just from school. There are lots of family and coworkers and stuff that drive that number pretty high even if you know some amputees.
Not many, i am an introvert.
You’ve finally done it. You out-akchuallied the pedantic nerds, becoming, yourself, the final gatekeeper of pedantry
Probably false, the avarage probably has a bit less then needed fo a full skeleton.
I’m quite sure it’s more, since some individuals contain multiple sets.
Its gonna be some stupid number, like 1.0777655678 skeletons per adult, on average. Even considering twins and triplets and quad amputees
No it doesn’t, because some people are missing limbs or ribs or have artificial joints. So the average body would have slightly fewer bones than necessary to make a whole skeleton.
I was gonna say: who is out there rocking extra bones?
There’s mutations and hereditary conditions that give you extra bones
Would a broken bone count as 2?
I feel like there should be a joke in here about giving someone’s mom an extra bone last night
HOW???!!! How is that possible? I blame illuminati for this.
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Some people say there’s a spooky skeleton inside you right now!
Eeew no! Geddit out!
Big (body) if true
Not true, average is higher than 1 entire skeleton.
You sure? I think it might be lower considering lost limbs and so. Pregnancies would raise it but pregnancy is temporary while lost limbs tend to be permanent.
I think we can assume some number above 0.1% to 1% of humans are pregnant at any given time, based on the number of births last year over a 9 month period divided by the number of people on earth total, but with the assumption that many aren’t carried to full term and end in loss of viability.
Each of those can have over 300 bones total, later on a lot of those would fuse so to create a full skeleton we should just consider it as 206.
Amputees numbered 57.7 Million people worldwide in 2017 or 0.8% but the vast majority of these are missing less than a single limb and retain most of their bones.
technically, because noone has a higher amount of bones but many people have less, this is false.
Nuh uh!
Surprising but true!
