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Comment author: Manfred 05 October 2012 06:07:22AM 7 points [-]

Average. Average. On average.

Comment author: EricHerboso 05 October 2012 05:48:39PM 2 points [-]

I'm so sorry. On rereading I see that you said average; I guess I was reading too quickly when I posted this reply.

I will use this as an opportunity to remind myself to always slowly reread any comments I plan to reply to at least once. It was sloppy of me to reply after a single read through, especially when missing that one word made me misunderstand the key point I found disagreement with.

Comment author: Manfred 05 October 2012 11:51:35PM 0 points [-]

It's ok. Automatically thinking about the average is slightly unusal local convention.