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Remember, nearly everyone has more than the average number of legs.
Depends on the definition of the term "average", which is often used loosely, especially by politicians telling porkies.
If you mean mean, OK. But if you mean median, it's not quite the same as I'm sure you know. (PEDANT MODE OFF).
PS; I've now got a problem trying to work out the median number of legs of a group of 100, 99 of whom have 2 legs, and one is deficient by 1 leg. Mean is 1.98 legs per person, and I guess the median is 2, but the lunchtime glass is intervening.
More pedantry:
There are three common measures of centrality, Mean, Median, and Mode. Median is not really applicable to a distribution where the possible values are drawn from a compact set of small integers, being more meaningful where there is a wide range of possible values. The measure that gives the answer that most people first think of for the legs problem is the mode, the value for the greatest number of the population.