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[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (10 children)

If you don't specify then the statement needs to hold for all averages to be correct.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (9 children)

"I have a ball"
"So you have a red ball?"
"No, it's green"
"If you don't specify then the statement needs to hold for all balls to be correct."

And by the way: for the given plot, it is correct for all averages

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

More like

"Balls are orange"
"That's wrong"
"Ah but basketballs are balls and they are orange, gotcha"
"No, you just said balls, that's too generic, if you meant basket balls you should have said basket balls."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

not all basketballs are orange

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

But the average basketball is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Who cares? Everyone understands the example anyway.

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