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balder1991yesterday at 10:33 PM3 repliesview on HN

Except there’s no average person, the average itself is a combination of people with the most diverse needs and constraints. It’s like the joke that the average human being has 1 breast and 1 testicle.


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totallymiketoday at 1:14 AM

My favorite similar statistic is that the average human body contains more than one human skeleton

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fragmedetoday at 4:23 AM

Given... things, it's more like 1.9 breasts and testicles. I was talking with someone who just couldn't get why though.