MetaFilter posts tagged with average

My life is average

bjork24 — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:12:20 -0800

I was never able to relate to FML, but I recently found a website that is much more accessible for the average person. It's decent, I guess. MLIA.

Foreign Military Financing?

blue_beetle — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:04:46 -0800

The Average Man's Tax Dollars from thetoiletpaper.com

The sharks are just jealous of our ice cream

Tehanu — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:50:23 -0800

BBC News is running a weekly ongoing series of articles that describe and illustrate common misconceptions (and manipulations) of statistics using examples from the news and ads.
Lesson 1: surveys. Lesson 2: counting. Lesson 3: percentage. Lesson 4: averages. Lesson 5: causation.

Size Doesn't Matter... Size Doesn't Matter... Keep repeating...

wendell — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:43:09 -0800

I've long felt that the U.S. of A. "jumped the shark" as a country when we rejected the Metric System. The price of gasoline would still be under a dollar (per liter). Yet, we'd drive less because a short 20 mile trip would become a long 32 km trip. Then there's the most important measurement of all [maybe NSFW animated graph], providing us with the joy of 12.9(!) while we try to ignore that Japan is .1 ahead of us and France is .1 more than South Africa. (And is that Korean average North or South?)