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averages

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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. Bill Mauldin

Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle. Dixie Lee Ray

A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time. Warren Farrell

This faulty intuition as well as many modern applications of probability theory are under the strong influence of traditional misconceptions concerning the meaning of the law of large numbers and of a popular mystique concerning a so-called law of averages. William Feller

As happens with sports and hobbies, his enjoyment was solemnized by expertise, the rites of comparing, collating, a half-deliberate parody of scholarship like the recitation of batting averages. Mary McCarthy

Casual murder, casual suicide, casual crime. Why not? If alternate universes are a reality, then cause and effect are an illusion. The law of averages is a fraud. You can do anything, and one of you will, or did. Larry Niven

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