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[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

A global average of 17c doesn't even mean it's necessarily 17c anywhere in the world. That's not how averages work. It could be 0c in half the world, and 34c in half the world, and the global average would be 17c (and yet it would be 17c nowhere).

The point of global averages is to identify trends, which are not isolated to a particular region.

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