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When analyzing a set of data, one of the first steps many people take is to compute an average. You might compare your height against the average height of people where you live, or brag about your favorite baseball player’s batting average. But while the average can help you study a dataset, it has important limitations. Uses of the average that ignore these limitations have led to serious issues, such as discrimination, injury and even life-threatening accidents. For example, the U.S. Air Force used to design its planes for “the average man,” but abandoned the practice when pilots couldn’t control their aircraft. The average has m...... Read Full article on GretAi

The James Webb Space Telescope, designed to be superior to the Hubble Space Telescope, has recently made a discovery that could change how we understand the universe. Light has been detected coming from a stunning 7 trillion miles away. Could this light be coming from a mysterious extraterrestrial world, millions of lightyears away? Several years ago, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope helped detect a family of seven rocky exoplanets orbiting the star Trappist one. The James Webb telescope then measured the temperature of one of these planets, finding it to be uninhabitable. This was a record-breaking discovery for the telescope, given the diffic...... Read Full article on GretAi