The average snake is non-venomous. If you tell your child to assume all snakes in the woods are venomous, you could be robbing them of a wonderful reptilian encounter. I would agree that you could act on the averages to say, all right, if I'm going into an area with lots of poverty, probably more crime. Using statistics to treat an individual difference would be inappropriate.

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