# 31 jokes for nerds

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/31-jokes-for-nerds/579769>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 26, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/31-jokes-for-nerds/579769 "2011-04-26T14:31:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/31-jokes-for-nerds/579769/41 "2011-05-09T00:28:03Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> It doesn’t work for median, either. It only works for mean (arithmetic average).
> 
> It’s actually a good illustration of the different kinds of averaging.

True enough. I was imagining a small line of 0s, then a small line of 1s, then a huge line of 2s, and was thinking the “middle” would be the gap between the last of the 1s and the first of the 2s - “median” would then be 1.5.

Totally fallacious, of course; the median would clearly be among the 2s.

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**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/31-jokes-for-nerds/579769/42 "2011-05-09T02:55:31Z")

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I’m terribly worried about the fact that I _got_ all the jokes…

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