Yesterday I talked to a lady who said, "I hope the weather returns to normal soon." I replied, "The weather is seldom ever normal. Most people think that normal is average and the average is made up of variations from average, some more extreme than others. So unless we define normal to be within a certain number of standard deviations, plus or minus, from the mean we don't know what normal is.
She looked at me as though I had totally lost it and said, "Well I hope it quits raining soon."
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