jeffinRTP t1_j3mqp3u wrote
How do you eat .862 of a sugar snack?
local_vvitch t1_j3mun9u wrote
It’s an average.
jeffinRTP t1_j3mx053 wrote
So why not just adverage it up to a whole number?
local_vvitch t1_j3mx53f wrote
Because that’s not what an average is.
jeffinRTP t1_j3mxfax wrote
But they are saying that child eat .863 of a sugar snack
local_vvitch t1_j3mynoz wrote
No, they’re saying the total number of snacks children ate divided by the number of children is 22.862. Not that each individual child ate 22.862 sugary snacks. That’s how averages work. It’s the same reason the average number of legs for humans is 1.97 legs.
BrokenEye3 t1_j3muh11 wrote
Yeah, there ought to be a unit of measurement in there somewhere, oughtn't there?
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