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no - in real life, each person has a child at some age. An aggregate of those numbers is still showing individual lives. Similar reasoning for "2.5 children" .. that is "average" but exactly zero people out of millions have 2.5 children in reality.



So what? You're just saying the mean of a list of integers can be a rational number.

There are a number of other ways to synthesize "Average" people from summary statistics, but none of this is worth being pedantic about.


no sorry, its a beginner mistake to think that there are average people at all. For example, people who are not adults.. there is no meaning to "average" for children at 2 years, 6 years, 8 years, 12 years.. they are different. Its not an average.. it is a collection of groups.. Human populations are collections of groups that overlap in characteristics.. there is no "average" person


from the other side, a real number product of mean, average etc. is .. a number. You can do lots of math with numbers, and you will get consistent results in a number sense.. but the model is not the creation


I’m not claiming that’s there such thing as an average person, just that there is an average age that a person has their first child.




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