The average human has one breast and one testicle; using group averages to make claims about individuals or to derive prescriptions for individuals is a category error—it conflates collective properties with individual properties.
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Nassim TalebEvidence Quote
“if i take the average human then the average human must have one breast...one testicle on average”
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A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram at the Wolfram Summer School 2021— WolframCreated: 8/11/2026, 1:49:43 AM
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