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Vitalik Buterin
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Medians are vulnerable to some interesting statistical paradoxes that means are not. For example, consider this scenario: * The median family owns $100k in real estate * The median family owns $100k in DOGE * The median family net worth is $100k * Nobody has any debt This is possible! Challenge: figure out how.
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Challenge 2: the median family also owns $100k in stocks. Median net worth is still $100k. Figure out how.
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Here's a solution, not sure if it's minimal
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It's wrong! haha. See row D. This is correct. Noticed that A → F are all possible permutations of (100, 0, 0), twice
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