The mode human body contains enough bones to make an entire skeleton. The average human body doesn't have enough.
The additional ~200 bones from fetuses in late stage pregnant woman would be more than the missing bones from amputees etc. OPs statement is accurate.
Wouldn’t they be too small though?
Skeleton size or proportionality not specified.
You can’t use one unfused half-bone in place of one full bone >:(
What if we use the little fetus bones to replace some of the smaller adult bones, and take those smaller adult bones to replace some bigger adult bones, and so on until we have a big ol' femur?
The word average can technically refer to arithmetic mean, median, mode, or range. That's why you were probably taught them at the same time. That's also why tests like the ACT tend to have a * at the top that says something along the lines of "Unless otherwise stated, the word average indicates arithmetic mean."
I have never in my life seen it refer to anything but the mean
Because mean is the most common form of average. But, for example, when referring to salaries, the words median and average are often used interchangeably.
This isn't true at all
Edit: well they may be used interchangebly, but they're also used incorrectly in that case
Actually, the average human body contains more than one skeleton.
This depends entirely on how many people there are out there with missing limbs.
It would have to be a lot considering that a baby has a full set of bones while a missing limb is generally only a few of them.
Half the bones in a adult human are in the hands and feet. I don't know if there's enough missing limbs to offset fetus skeletons but I there's a whole lot of bones missing in a double amputee.
No it doesn't, because some people are missing limbs or ribs or have artificial joints. So the average body would have slightly fewer bones than necessary to make a whole skeleton.
Pregnant women would increase the average to greater than one complete skeleton per person.
But are those bones in the body of the pregnant woman, or is the body of the fetus a different set?
Same body, two sets
Even if you count the fetus as a human, the fetuses bones are still inside the pregnant woman. So there are still more than one skeleton on average inside humans.
Oh, don't forget conjoined twins.
Probably false, the avarage probably has a bit less then needed fo a full skeleton.
Despite all the "AKcHUaLLy" comments this is probably true.
If the body has 206 bones and the global average is like 205.7, a bone that is even partially complete is still a bone, and it is probably so close to 206 that the missing parts are negligible and distributed across the skeleton anyway. Think about it, how many people do you know that are missing an appendage or a bone by defect? I bet it's less than 0.5% of everyone you know.
Take my upvote.
I have 2 neighbours is missing a leg, and a family friend missing a finger. I am one of the outliers.
But it still wouldn't be an entire human skeleton, as there's more to a skeleton than just the number of bones.
So by this logic, if you age and develop arthritis you no longer possess a complete human skeleton?
I feel like there should be a joke in here about giving someone’s mom an extra bone last night
HOW???!!! How is that possible? I blame illuminati for this.
Big (body) if true
technically, because noone has a higher amount of bones but many people have less, this is false.
Late stage pregnant woman have a higher amount of human bones
finally someone that doesnt just tell me there is a very rare disease that creates a single extra bone
anyway yeah if you count pregnant women the average skeletons in a human body is more than one
What about that one horrible disease where your muscles start turning into extra bones?
Some people say there's a spooky skeleton inside you right now!
Eeew no! Geddit out!
Nuh uh!
Surprising but true!
I guess we are all average.. :)
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