- The average group is not necessarily the majority.
----- Conversation that triggered
Q: Then the local oddball is now an [ordinary person
No, there is a difference between having a large number of people and being usually
- Usually means average here.
Q: Is the image of the convexity of the distribution flattened?
That distribution, I think you’re thinking in one-dimensional space, For example, when a 3-dimensional sphere is divided in half by distance from the center, the outer half is 7 times larger Mean is in the center. Even if the number of people per unit volume was greater in the center. Since the volume of the denominator is larger in the periphery The “oddballs will be the majority.”
To use a more neutral phrase, “the average person becomes a minority.” I have a bias against the words “weird” and “normal. weirdo → a person whose sensor output deviates from the average output. Normal → average output person
relevance - Curse of the dimension
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