EDIT: Thanks for the answers

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    These things are averages, and the average of integers can be a non-integer. If two women have one child each and a third woman has two children, the average woman has 1.33 children. Is that what you meant?

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    What is tripping you up exactly? Most statistics are population level averages, so they are divided by a large number.