Comic #3548: 2015-02-02

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Panel 1:
"Welcome to statistics class. Today we talk about the interpretation of averages."

Panel 2:
"The average person has one testicle and one ovary."

Panel 3:
"The average statistician right now has 1.2 testicles and 0.8 ovaries."

Panel 4:
"But that little bit of a testicle has been slowly shriveling up for decades now."

Panel 5:
"Meanwhile, the ovary grows ever fuller, ever more whole, until one day, the testicle will finally shrink down to a speck of dust and disappear."

Panel 6:
"This is about how you want more women studying stats, right?"

Panel 7:
"No, I’m just making the TA uncomfortable."

Panel 8:
"May I be excused?"