Old Wives’ Tales That Are Just Plain Wrong

Misunderstanding Averages

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“You eat eight spiders in a lifetime” is a statistical error. Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave and eats ten thousand spiders daily, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Yeah, people don’t understand how averages work. It’s actually just one guy that eats a billion spiders every year.

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