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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] passepartout@feddit.org 64 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

From Wikipedia:

Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.

What you described would be the median, not average. Those can be very far apart, a good example is the distribution of wealth. Put 10 homeless people in a room with Bill Gates and everyone's a billionaire on average.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (6 children)

The median is an average. There's generally three types of average, Mean (what you're talking about), Median (the one they're talking about), and Mode (the one rarely talked about).

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 11 points 6 days ago

Average has a definition of being the mean, median, or mode, BUT it also has a definition that it is a synonym for the mean.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average

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