Most people don’t know that there is a unifying intersection in the metric system. Not by accident, one cubic centimeter of water weighs one gram. That’s probably mineral-free distilled water, but you get the point—there’s a connection between how we measure lines and how we measure mass.
Most people probably assume that other things we think about are similarly connected. Like that gram of water, the word average would seem to be a linking point. Reasonable assumptions using the word might include average students get average grades, and average restaurants serve average food.
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