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I loved the math lesson at the beginning: you have a lot of kids, you have a normal number of kids.

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I don't recall much from my math classes over 2 decades ago, but the difference between mean and median is one of them.

I am curious for your thoughts on the this, as you are very pro-child rearing, but may come at it from a very different starting point.

I hope your family is doing well!

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We are indeed doing well.

Mean, median, mode… and there are several types of mean :)

I have written a few posts on this subject, including a religious take in:

https://vonwriting.substack.com/p/always-open

and one dealing with the math of the modern demographic crash:

https://vonwriting.substack.com/p/the-math-of-fertility

and one dealing with math, fiction, and demographics:

https://vonwriting.substack.com/p/the-modern-problem-with-math

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