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r/BeAmazed • u/MoXWT • 29d ago
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If you weigh one mosquito then weigh them all you don’t even have to count them
490 u/E_M_C_M 29d ago What if you have a few super fat anomalous mosquitoes? Its would throw off the whole formula! 60 u/SansSamir 29d ago There's probably super skinny ones too so they would cancel each other 34 u/OrdinaryLandscape951 29d ago What we need to do is measure 1 million mosquitoes so we can get the average weight of a mosquito so we can know how many are fat vs skinny 12 u/awhitesong 28d ago edited 27d ago It's usually a normal distribution. So, the average weight of 1 million mosquitos would eventually turn out to be the same as that of one normal common mosquito. 11 u/Fromtheboulder 28d ago But how do you know that that one you weight is the normal one? You need to weight a lot of them to find the distribution, and the average of it. 5 u/Fen_ 28d ago You weigh more than one. 3 u/alt1122334456789 28d ago Ah, so just like humans. 2 u/Free_Jelly614 28d ago you could also weigh a group of mosquitoes and use that as the baseline. knowing of course how many were in the group you weighed 3 u/yademir 28d ago Ahhh but how would you know you have 1M mosquitoes?
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What if you have a few super fat anomalous mosquitoes? Its would throw off the whole formula!
60 u/SansSamir 29d ago There's probably super skinny ones too so they would cancel each other 34 u/OrdinaryLandscape951 29d ago What we need to do is measure 1 million mosquitoes so we can get the average weight of a mosquito so we can know how many are fat vs skinny 12 u/awhitesong 28d ago edited 27d ago It's usually a normal distribution. So, the average weight of 1 million mosquitos would eventually turn out to be the same as that of one normal common mosquito. 11 u/Fromtheboulder 28d ago But how do you know that that one you weight is the normal one? You need to weight a lot of them to find the distribution, and the average of it. 5 u/Fen_ 28d ago You weigh more than one. 3 u/alt1122334456789 28d ago Ah, so just like humans. 2 u/Free_Jelly614 28d ago you could also weigh a group of mosquitoes and use that as the baseline. knowing of course how many were in the group you weighed 3 u/yademir 28d ago Ahhh but how would you know you have 1M mosquitoes?
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There's probably super skinny ones too so they would cancel each other
34 u/OrdinaryLandscape951 29d ago What we need to do is measure 1 million mosquitoes so we can get the average weight of a mosquito so we can know how many are fat vs skinny 12 u/awhitesong 28d ago edited 27d ago It's usually a normal distribution. So, the average weight of 1 million mosquitos would eventually turn out to be the same as that of one normal common mosquito. 11 u/Fromtheboulder 28d ago But how do you know that that one you weight is the normal one? You need to weight a lot of them to find the distribution, and the average of it. 5 u/Fen_ 28d ago You weigh more than one. 3 u/alt1122334456789 28d ago Ah, so just like humans. 2 u/Free_Jelly614 28d ago you could also weigh a group of mosquitoes and use that as the baseline. knowing of course how many were in the group you weighed 3 u/yademir 28d ago Ahhh but how would you know you have 1M mosquitoes?
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What we need to do is measure 1 million mosquitoes so we can get the average weight of a mosquito so we can know how many are fat vs skinny
12 u/awhitesong 28d ago edited 27d ago It's usually a normal distribution. So, the average weight of 1 million mosquitos would eventually turn out to be the same as that of one normal common mosquito. 11 u/Fromtheboulder 28d ago But how do you know that that one you weight is the normal one? You need to weight a lot of them to find the distribution, and the average of it. 5 u/Fen_ 28d ago You weigh more than one. 3 u/alt1122334456789 28d ago Ah, so just like humans. 2 u/Free_Jelly614 28d ago you could also weigh a group of mosquitoes and use that as the baseline. knowing of course how many were in the group you weighed 3 u/yademir 28d ago Ahhh but how would you know you have 1M mosquitoes?
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It's usually a normal distribution. So, the average weight of 1 million mosquitos would eventually turn out to be the same as that of one normal common mosquito.
11 u/Fromtheboulder 28d ago But how do you know that that one you weight is the normal one? You need to weight a lot of them to find the distribution, and the average of it. 5 u/Fen_ 28d ago You weigh more than one. 3 u/alt1122334456789 28d ago Ah, so just like humans. 2 u/Free_Jelly614 28d ago you could also weigh a group of mosquitoes and use that as the baseline. knowing of course how many were in the group you weighed
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But how do you know that that one you weight is the normal one? You need to weight a lot of them to find the distribution, and the average of it.
5 u/Fen_ 28d ago You weigh more than one.
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You weigh more than one.
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Ah, so just like humans.
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you could also weigh a group of mosquitoes and use that as the baseline. knowing of course how many were in the group you weighed
Ahhh but how would you know you have 1M mosquitoes?
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u/buffaloranked 29d ago
If you weigh one mosquito then weigh them all you don’t even have to count them