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Probably false, the avarage probably has a bit less then needed fo a full skeleton.
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I'm quite sure it's more, since some individuals contain multiple sets.
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Its gonna be some stupid number, like 1.0777655678 skeletons per adult, on average. Even considering twins and triplets and quad amputees
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I feel like there should be a joke in here about giving someone’s mom an extra bone last night
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technically, because noone has a higher amount of bones but many people have less, this is false.
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Late stage pregnant woman have a higher amount of human bones
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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
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HOW???!!! How is that possible? I blame illuminati for this.
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Some people say there's a spooky skeleton inside you right now!
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Surprising but true!
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Eeew no! Geddit out!
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Nuh uh!
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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?
You can’t use one unfused half-bone in place of one full bone >:(
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
Actually, the average human body contains more than one skeleton.
This depends entirely on how many people there are out there with missing limbs.
Different perspective: Even if you miss a limb your body contains the full 100% of the skeleton you can find in a person missing that limb.
There still complete human beings even if their body has a unique challenge.
I appreciate what you're saying here - people come in all shapes and sizes, with different abilities, limb counts, etc. Every one is a human being deserving respect and dignity.
But OP didn't say "a complete human being" - it said "a complete human skeleton."
If an individual is missing a limb, by birth or by accident, they don't have a complete skeleton. It's a plain fact. Doesn't mean they are any less human.