# The (constructive, effective) disagreement thread

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**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-constructive-effective-disagreement-thread/925194/81 "2020-11-11T19:24:02Z")

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Sure, but your question really didn’t address the 80M so much as it addressed the 70M, and – since they’re really very distinct cohorts at this point – I don’t think you can safely aggregate the two groups to determine an average.

I love the saying, “A mathematician said that he slept with his head in the oven and his feet in the freezer. ‘On average,’ he said, ‘it’s quite comfortable.’”

😉

Thank Og I didn’t have to leave SDMB to find the other one that I love, and that came to mind:

> [@World's funniest joke](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-funniest-joke/360131/78):
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> Three statisticians go hunting one fine autumn day. A deer runs in front of them. One statistician shoots ahead of it. The second shoots behind it. The third shouts, “We got it!” Joe retires and builds his dream house on a mountain in West Virginia. He’s just settling in when there’s a loud knock at the door. He opens it to see a huge, unkempt man in a torn red plaid shirt, jeans with suspenders, beer belly and an enormous bushy beard. “The name’s Big Earl,” the man booms. “I live on t…

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