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February 26[edit]

how many tattoos does the average person have[edit]

Snowycake (talk) 23:55, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How is this different from your previous question? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:22, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That one was about the average number of tattoos on a person. This is about the number of tattoos on the average person. This is much easier: (1) find the average person; (2) count their tattoos. --Lambiam 11:06, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lambiam, surely you understand that "the average person" is a mathematical abstraction, and no actual individual can be identified as "average" in any particular characteristic without their measurement or count in that characteristic being already known and used to select them? I am struggling to assume good faith with this query. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.125.75.168 (talk) 20:02, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was poking what I meant to be good-hearted fun at Bugs' question – which I assumed to be rhetorical. A more pertinent question (I think) is, if the questioner was (apparently) not satisfied with the earlier responses, why did they not react to them? --Lambiam 12:19, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This does get into the argument, does an average person exist? I believe that it depends on the population size. In my truck, right now, I am the only person. So, I am the average person in my truck. In my city, there may be a person who is average height, average weight, with average income, average education, an average number of kids (rounded to the nearest whole child, obviously). How do you handle categorical data? There is no "average" eye color because eye color is not numerical. You can look for mode and get most common eye color, most common hair color, most common skin color, most common gender, etc... I have thought about this previously because I believe that the chance of finding an average person increases with a smaller set size. The larget the population gets, the harder it is to find an average person. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 14:04, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Since the OP didn't indicate on what measure we are signifying someone "average", I am exactly the U.S. average height for men. Given that I am, on at least one measure, an average person, I can report that I have zero tattoos. --Jayron 32 15:02, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Seriously though, the OP seems to be searching for This information. --Jayron 32 15:04, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, you must mean this guy! No mention of any tattoos.... Martinevans123 (talk)