Well worth duplicating. I really like the coin analogy that Bob produced, and it is worth mentioning again how good it is.
On Wunder-Blunder's thread on the NVIDIA video, I gave a watered down version of it so that people of YT hoax-nut mentality might get it. For JW's off-the-wall inclusion of 10 MeV and 100 MeV electrons, where he got an average of 55 MeV, I proposed an example of 100 coins consisting of dimes, (10 cents @), and dollars, (100 cents @). I asked, "What's the average value of the coins?" Any halfway logical person would say, "I don't know unless you tell me how many are dimes and how many are dollars."
I went on to say that the average is most definitely
not 55 cents if 99 of the coins are dimes and
one is a dollar. I could have extended the analogy, but stopped there. To drop the other shoe, I would ask, now what if we're talking about a billion coins where 999,999,990 are pennies, (one cent), 9 are dimes, and one is a dollar? Now what's the average value? Well, the answer is almost exactly one cent. The overwhelming majority of pennies makes both the dimes and dollars virtually meaningless.
As a final kick, I would add that in a fair analogy, there wouldn't be _any_ dollar coins in the first place, and even if there were, they have been declared no longer legal tender and have zero value -- analogous to the fact that 100 MeV electrons would go right through the astronauts, imparting almost no energy to their bodies. (I didn't know that until I read Braeunig's article.)
I wonder if Wunder-Blunder understands this coin concept. Or is your and my history with him a good predictor that he just lacks that kind of mathematical or logical thinking ability?
