Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Enough
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 09:55:44 -0700

on 9/9/01 4:23 AM, Craig Yeo at craig.yeo@nt.sympatico.ca thoughtfully
wrote:

> First, you agrammatical moron, you don't use something "the most" "on
> average".  By definition, if more people use it more than any other
> thing, it is not average.

Ahem, he's not being a grammatical moron. "On average", to this reader,
suggests "arithmetic mean". So you take the mean use of all the cameras and
select the one with the greatest value "the most."

It really DOES make sense in the vernacular.

Adam