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[AntonioLao]

Statistical averages either scare or fascinate. Average income usually cannot satisfy the average wage earners. Average height encourages high heels shoes. Average look helps create lucrative cosmetic industries. Many have difficulty maintaining average weights, average IQ, average waits, average talks, average sleeps, average walks, average driving speed, and average living conditions. In a word, average means boredom. In another perspective, statistical averages promote insurance businesses, distinguish sporting standards, and exercise sensible decision-making processes. A government insisting on a rule of averages can lead either to communism (equal public properties ownership) or fascism (total subservient). Both forms prevent or discourage the free enterprises of a democracy.

On the other hand, statistical averages allow physicists to differentiate bosons from fermions, to formulate the kinetic theory of heat; and in mathematics, the theory of probability for random events thus raising the absolute importance of Gaussian or normal continuous distribution into a probability law for large numbers for a central limit theorem. Nature uses averages to identity all elementary particles among themselves: the mass of every electron is the same, the mass of every proton is the same, the mass of every neutron is the same, and the rest mass of every photon is zero. However, all these can occupy different quantum states of energy. A state of spacetime wherein mass is quantized and energy is continuous becomes a state of a two dimensional anyon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyon. It is a privileged state exclusively reserved for the whole universe.

[Profpat]

I know I loved the three stat classes I had to take. ( Yuck ). But I believe it is true that the weight they assign to protons and neutrons is an average weight. And the weight of one for an electron is arbitralily set as one.

Now what is there average income or inflow?

[AntonioLao]

Yuck

Are you telling me you are also a determinist just like Einstein in his later days?

what is there average income

The money you should be making by the standard of society but in fact make a lot less.

[labelwench]

In mathematics and physics there at least appears to be some symmetry or rules of equal application.

Endeavoring to make rules of equal application for the diversity of the human population shall ever prove to be an exercise in frustration for those who choose the challenges of governance.

Unless, perchance, a Theory Of Everything, once discovered, proves to be the missing balance or equalizing factor.

[SteveA]

A government insisting on a rule of averages can lead either to communism (equal public properties ownership) or fascism (total subservient). Both forms prevent or discourage the free enterprises of a democracy.

(Great comment, though I wouldn't use the term democracy because of it's close association with voting averages - the ideal is closer to individual liberty - democratic pressures are simply an unavoidable consequence that must be dealt with in nature)

It's also easier to destroy than create and pull people down than allow them to rise (trying to lift people up is fruitless and doesn't teach people to stay afloat - better to set an example and provide tools to those that desire to learn).

Pursuing averages generally reaches the lowest common denominator.

But there's no evidence, after the fact, that this is what actually happened as an average was successfully reached. Memory and knowledge can determine that the average dropped, otherwise the natural remedy is the school of hard knocks.

You only need an equal respect for others interests and the rest can be a smorgasbord.

[AntonioLao]

Endeavoring to make rules of equal application for the diversity of the human population

Could this be resolved if all applicable persons are insiders or all are outsiders? What about passive observers?

[labelwench]

Could this be resolved if all applicable persons are insiders or all are outsiders? What about passive observers?

All persons are applicable. IMHO, it is impossible to be a passive observer. One may choose to limit their participation, yet we all contribute an effect, some greater,some lessor.

How to remove the the delineations of 'insider', 'outsider', 'neutral' or other seems to be the challenge, when our very nature seems to be an inclination to compete.

We seemingly co-operate to find 'a level playing field', yet to maintain same appears challenging.

Thank you for your comments.

Labelwench