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How ‘Average’ Came To Mean ‘Typical’ (And Social Science Was Born)

IDEAS Posted: February 19, 2016 7:00 am

The original concept of average is, after all, mathematical: the mean of a set of numbers. That measurement came to signify “normal” and even “exemplary” thanks to a frustrated Belgian astronomer who got caught on the wrong side of a revolution.

IDEAS Published: 02.18.16

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 02.18.16

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