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The New DU. Reply #63: Nope, false statement on your part
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WatsonT
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Fri May-06-11 06:30 PM
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a group does not have to be homogenous to have an average.
If I have 10 people with radically different heights but an average of 6ft what is their average? This is why we shouldn't cut so many corners on education, I hate having to explain this sort of thing.
There are virtually no groups of anything that are 100% exactly the same, that's why we came up with the field of statistics (or witchcraft as you most likely call it) to describe general trends in a meaningful way.
Claiming that poverty is the biggest factor (reread the OP) not merely one of a myriad is incorrect.
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