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When working with numbers representing many people, one often employs the average to describe the people represented by the numbers. However, this approach can lead to serious problems due to the flaw of averages, which is that findings based on the average are wrong on average. In fact, often when dealing with people, the average person… Continue reading Untitledhttps://quecst.qcri.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/average.png