Comments by "HIFLY" (@HIFLY01) on "What is “normal” and what is “different”? - Yana Buhrer Tavanier" video.

  1. This makes sense if you are comparing someone to the averages and not actually to the average themselves. Example: the average amount of human arms is not 2. Some people have 0 or 1 or even more than 2. Does that mean its normal to have 3? Not necessarily because 2 is what a large majority of people are born with thus making it normal. Counting arms would probably be lower than 2 so lets say 1.80 arms per person. Does that mean anyone with 2 arms being compared to Norm/Norma's average of 1.80 is abnormal? No. Height is another great example. If you took 100 men aged 25 and calculated their average height and said the average is 5 feet 10 inches and thats the "Norm" height, that doesn't mean anyone who is a male, 25, and 5 feet 9 inches isn't normal. Comparing someone to a single calculated average is different than comparing someone to a group of people who made the average. Some guys aged 25 might be 6 2 or 5 8. Someone 5 10 would fit fine in that average even if the calculated average was 5 11 but someone like Andre the giant at 7 4 wouldn't.
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