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[RebeccaFog]

Only because we eat better and we eat more. Usually what we're eating is food.

[Nero]

well, technically we are taller as a species than we were.

not true. men in the mid ages were on average a lot taller than the average for men now. we're only now recovering from the revolutionary period lows.

[Nicky]

not true. men in the mid ages were on average a lot taller than the average for men now. we're only now recovering from the revolutionary period lows.

Now by average are we talking about the mean, median or mode?

[Pica Pica]

i remember those words from maths, however I was in special needs maths so I don't actually remember what is all means.

[Nero]

i remember those words from maths, however I was in special needs maths so I don't actually remember what is all means.

special needs? you serious ginger?

[Pica Pica]

yeah, i was top of the smart class with the brainy people for everything, except maths where I was with the dribblers, and art, woodwork and PE where I was told not to bother coming. I went to the library instead.

[Nero]

well now i don't feel so embarrassed to admit i didn't remember what Nicky meant either!

Posted on: November 12, 2008, 05:34:05 amPS bet the bullies had fun with you!

[Pica Pica]

nope. i was never bullied. except when i first moved to coventry...but their bullying methods were so cliche, so out of a social education play that i laughed at them and invited me to bully me the next day, they never did.

[Nero]

bet that was a scene worthy of your hero.

[Pica Pica]

not quite, he always had his nifty sword play to back it up. i just had a mouth.
of course in those days my nickname was matchstick and I wore trousers for children much younger than me, i was also just drifting away from being a truely rabid christian. all fun.

of course what i really fear is numbers  i count the till in the morning, and i never get the same amount twice.

[Nero]

you were a rabid christian? 

[Pica Pica]

yeah, tried to convert people, didn't we all?

[Nero]

no.  i was a much more passive christian. oh god, you running around trying to convert people! did you have a trusty bible in hand on the playground? 

[Shana A]

yeah, i was top of the smart class with the brainy people for everything, except maths where I was with the dribblers, and art, woodwork and PE where I was told not to bother coming. I went to the library instead.

I wish they would've let me not show up to PE. I cut that class as often as I could, finally one semester I was told that I'd flunk if I didn't show up, which would've screwed up graduating. They proposed that I wouldn't have to play any sports, just show up and sit on the bench and they would give me a passing grade. So I sat on the bench reading books. Frankly, I think libraries are much nicer places to read  They still tried to make me change into the uniform for class, and I argued that, saying what's the point if I'm not playing.

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[Lokaeign]

Mean:  You add up all of the guy's heights, then you divide that number by the number of guys. 

Median:  You arrange all the heights in order (lowest at one end, highest at the other), then pick the number in the middle.

Mode:  You look at all the numbers, and count how often each one appears.  The one that appears most often is the mode.

[Nicky]

when most people talk of averages they are refering to the mean.

I have to admit to being a bit of a maths geek. I seem to have an intuitive nack for it. I don't tend to know the 'rules' but the principals behind it just seem to come naturally. If you know the principals you can derive most of the rules anyway. At university I did a lot of Statistics and some stuff on applied logic. I'm pretty rusty now though 

I went to a catholic boys college ('high school' for the Americans). Not entirely sure when I lost my faith. I think I was 14 when I decided to actually think about what people were telling me. Then I felt guilty for a couple years then got over it.

[6thsomatic]

yeah, tried to convert people, didn't we all?

Nope, lol. I was never a good catholic. Complained from day 1 that I didn't want to be there. Then I started to learn the in's and out's of the religion and started asking questions people couldn't answer. That was fantastic ^_^