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With real world probabilities, the mean human is a man with 0.9987 testicles who has personally given birth to 1.15 children, and who lives within a 3386 km radius of 都鲁, Sichuan.

Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.




all probabilities are conditional. Only a naive statistician will use global averages


Which is one of several reasons why you were wrong to complain about distorting "real-world probabilities" in the first place, and was also the point I was illustrating with my example.




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