Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, December 29, 2016
DEAD AVERAGING, DEAD RECKONING
DEAD AVERAGING, DEAD RECKONING
No "averaging" nor reckoning of anything need include you, necessarily, nor anyone else.
"Averages" are mean mathematical fictions, postulates, hypotheticals that are cast as statistically symbolically, archetypally, representative, but are not actually, really you.
"Averages, then, may or may not mirror you, unless you are dead! Lacking dynamism and power; since averages measure what is static, not dynamic.
So if you are alive, and move, be not dismayed by averages reckonings, nor by polls, since they mask much more than that they can ever accurately disclose about you.
Example 1: What is the Mean of these numbers?
6, 11, 7
Add the numbers: 6 + 11 + 7 = 24
Divide by how many numbers (there are 3 numbers): 24 / 3 = 8
The Mean is 8