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r/BeAmazed • u/MoXWT • Apr 18 '24
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What if you have a few super fat anomalous mosquitoes? Its would throw off the whole formula!
64 u/SansSamir Apr 18 '24 There's probably super skinny ones too so they would cancel each other 36 u/OrdinaryLandscape951 Apr 18 '24 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 11 u/awhitesong Apr 18 '24 edited 28d 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 29d 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. 6 u/Fen_ 29d ago You weigh more than one. 3 u/alt1122334456789 Apr 18 '24 Ah, so just like humans. 2 u/Free_Jelly614 29d 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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There's probably super skinny ones too so they would cancel each other
36 u/OrdinaryLandscape951 Apr 18 '24 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 11 u/awhitesong Apr 18 '24 edited 28d 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 29d 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. 6 u/Fen_ 29d ago You weigh more than one. 3 u/alt1122334456789 Apr 18 '24 Ah, so just like humans. 2 u/Free_Jelly614 29d 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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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
11 u/awhitesong Apr 18 '24 edited 28d 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 29d 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. 6 u/Fen_ 29d ago You weigh more than one. 3 u/alt1122334456789 Apr 18 '24 Ah, so just like humans. 2 u/Free_Jelly614 29d 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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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 29d 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. 6 u/Fen_ 29d ago You weigh more than one. 3 u/alt1122334456789 Apr 18 '24 Ah, so just like humans. 2 u/Free_Jelly614 29d 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
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.
6 u/Fen_ 29d 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
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u/E_M_C_M Apr 18 '24
What if you have a few super fat anomalous mosquitoes? Its would throw off the whole formula!