Peer Averages...Half-Baked Chicken ???

From A Letter To The Editor:

"Dumb Clucks" ?
(... on average?)

The Economist

     (11/29/2014)

"Sir:

  

I agree that "averages should not be the sole basis for making policy decisions".  Your article reminded me of a sign that was posted outside the office door of a visiting African scholar.  Putting the matter succinctly, it read, ....

"A statistician is a fellow who says that if you ate a chicken and I ate nothing, we each ate, on average, half a chicken."  

                         

                              - Lawrence Mohr, 

                              Professor Emeritus 

                           University of Michigan

("Chicken Little"... fried, half-baked, or robust?)