How Averages Can Trick You and Obscure the Truth
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We use averages all the time as engineers, as people. And to day's episode, wor kin o talk about how averaging can trick you. The basic idea is that you add all the numbers and then id by the number of numbers. If all the numbers are the same, then the average is whatever that number is. But let's say you add 70 plus 80 plus 90 plus 100. That's 300. Forty divided by four gives you 85. You can imagine multiplying that final exam five times, and you're back to working with averages.
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