Say you measured the skin shade of every human being on a color scale, and then averaged it out. How dark would the skin of the average human being be?
Human.
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Well, about 1 billion people live in India, which is pretty diverse, another 1.6 billion in China (and not all Chinese), I’m gonna take a stab and say the answer is:
Not WASP
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Pretty impossible question to answer I think.
Average?
You want arithmetic (or geometric) mean? Median? Mode?
The palest-skinned populations live in Europe, North America, Australia/NZ, and Argentina. Total population of these areas is a bit over 1 billion (a bit over 700 million in Europe, roughly 300 million in US and Canada combined not counting darker-skinned subpopulations, and a few tens of millions elsewhere).
The darkest-skinned populations are found in sub-Saharan Africa (population around 650 million) plus regions of the African diaspora in the Americas (US, Caribbean, Brazil), New Guinea, and the southern parts of the Indian subcontinent. At a guess, these populations combined might also come to something on the order of 1 billion.
Remaining populations (Central and South America, North Africa, Asia, Oceania) are intermediate, ranging from pale brown to dark brown, depending on latitude and ancestry.
So, on average, human skin color would probably be a medium brown.
So AGAIN I’m just average? Terrific.