At the same moment that we're obvious choices as "representative," we have features even in our participation in that community that mean we can't be.
It's like being the least interesting number--one can't be it by virtue of the fact that if one were, that would be enough to make it so you wouldn't it be. Essentially representative examples would lack the standard deviation that most examples would have.
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Date: 2007-07-20 10:42 pm (UTC)It's like being the least interesting number--one can't be it by virtue of the fact that if one were, that would be enough to make it so you wouldn't it be. Essentially representative examples would lack the standard deviation that most examples would have.