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Measure a group of humans on N traits and take the individual average of each trait. For surprisingly small N (think 10-ish, but obviously depending on your group size), it's highly likely that no human in your group (or even in existence) falls within 10% of the average in every trait. This is roughly equivalent to the statement that less and less of the volume of an N-sphere is near the center as N increases.

Sometimes called "the flaw of averages". Of course I learned about this from another HN post recently:

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...



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