How to pronounce “averages” in English

It averages around 11, 12 kilometers-- sorry I don't know in miles exactly.

If averages are not useful, which I think you've made a really compelling case there, what do we use in its place?

So averages are really useful, and even percentiles, when what you care about is the population-- the group.

It averages around 20,000 to 30,000 builds a day to give you the scale for our couple dozen

context averages okay so for example imagine that you happen to see this Google HR report that says on average

The point is: averages like mean, median, and mode are different ways of telling you what might be typical, but they’re way more useful when you understand

something that aggregates and averages over these different-- uh, my pointer doesn't work-- these different goals which are fed

The utility aggregates-- it averages over these things, and you're trying to maximize that.

And so the Spartathlon averages it, gives you 36.

And I compute averages using a quantum computer.

and the averages they're more or less spending the same as we are they're just spending the dollars differently they're getting much much better social outcomes

These are averages and standard deviations and coefficient of variations over longer intervals.

We know that averages don't work to understand individuals.

And the averages that I've showed you before include the people that relapsed.

These are averages.

The fleet averages must be below the lines.

to create new averages in the database so think of urer as as feeding on uh

on a guess based on population averages.

But we think it all kind of averages out.

And if we look at averages of how often people switch within apps-- that means you open up Word, and then you're opening up other documents within word

And they've looked at countrywide averages of happiness and environment.

And then you get these averages.

And they use this method of averages to try to figure out correlations between things.

The problem is when you use averages, there can only ever be one pathway-- the average one.

We can't live by the averages.

Up and down high beta to the averages.

And from those measurements will treat you based on population averages, rather than the individual.

So it's a little bit hard to say what averages are across broad populations.

outlook is predicting temperatures and rainfall far outside of global averages.

And it becomes certainty, averages essentially in a certain way.

So the World Happiness Report usually focuses on the average-- national averages.

Osteologists would be a little bit wary about giving averages for the whole of the Neolithic in Ireland, or a particular region,

So I need to compute a bunch of these little averages here.

Because I totally believe in the law of averages.

Another thing I'd like to remind you is that averages are distortions by definition.

These were like when you looked at the kind of averages that the algorithm came up with, there was a face, a blobby thing that was maybe

The first time that I encountered scientifically the failure of averages was back in 2002.

So I think it's important to clarify too-- averages are useful sometimes.

And what we hear all the time is it the averages didn't come back until the early '40s for the S&P, and the early '50s

try to prevent temperatures from exceeding 2 degre above current Global averages so we cannot use that fossil

time um and interestingly the very fact of knowing the averages from polls does not save

We still live in a world of generalized health care based on population averages.

So we have to recognize that when we start to talk about averages and we talk about us all being in the same stage, that we're doing change

But if you think about it, it averages out.

But we do it in all other fields of social science with the assumption that averages would have to represent some people

And we're still stuck as a society with this mindset of averages.

And 100 pages over two years, that averages out to about 40 words a day.

we prevent this backfire effect from occurring when you publish uh the averages right well what about adding an

So you can't just build it on winning, because law of averages, it's not going to continue to be that way forever.