• @Burninator05
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    The mode human body contains enough bones to make an entire skeleton. The average human body doesn’t have enough.

    • Greg Clarke
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      3610 months ago

      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.

      • @jaybone
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        Wouldn’t they be too small though?

      • @QuaternionsRock
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        You can’t use one unfused half-bone in place of one full bone >:(

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          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?

        • Greg Clarke
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          210 months ago

          The statement “the ocean contains enough water to fill a bucket” doesn’t mean the ocean only contains a single bucket of water. “The ocean contains enough water to fill one bucket” might imply that the ocean only contains one bucket of water but OP doesn’t specify a number. This is an interesting conversation on ambiguous semantics in English.

    • @JusticeForPorygon
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      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.”

        • @JusticeForPorygon
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          710 months ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            10 months ago

            This isn’t true at all

            Edit: well they may be used interchangebly, but they’re also used incorrectly in that case

    • MacN'Cheezus
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      1310 months ago

      Actually, the average human body contains more than one skeleton.

      • @evidences
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        510 months ago

        This depends entirely on how many people there are out there with missing limbs.

        • MacN'Cheezus
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          510 months ago

          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.

          • @evidences
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            210 months ago

            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.

            • MacN'Cheezus
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              210 months ago

              Babies have up to 270 bones at birth (instead of 206 in an adult), which makes up for at least one double amputee (hands have 27 bones and feet have 26 each).

    • dream_weasel
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      210 months ago

      Are infinitesimally shaved average bones not bones? Idk who is the bone authority responsible for making that decision.

          • @[email protected]
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            610 months ago

            Pregnant women as well. Now their human body contains two skeletons, thus raising the average number of bones in a human body by a considerable amount. I would guess there’s probably more pregnant women than there are people missing limbs.

            • @[email protected]
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              310 months ago

              Ok then technically we are all born with an extra set of teeth. That we lose. So a full skeleton contains all the baby teeth as well.

              • @[email protected]
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                110 months ago

                Traditionaly when talking about the skeleton, we refer to the adult skeleton seeing as an adolescent skeleton have more bones that then fuse. I agree that we need to take that into account, but I don’t believe the statement would be referring to an adolescent skeleton.

        • dream_weasel
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          110 months ago

          Plenty of people do. My sister for example had bones in her feet that never fused and had to have an extra removed. I guess that’s pretty common

        • TheRealKuni
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          110 months ago

          My wife has an extra rib above her collarbone.

        • Exatron
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          110 months ago

          Some people were born with extra fingers, and sometimes entire extra limbs.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          I guess you could say they’re missing body parts, but not humanity parts (necessarily)

          • @[email protected]
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            Yeah kind of - I think “a complete body” is neither necessary or sufficient to make one a “human being.”

            For example, there are plenty of murderers, rapists, and pedos with “complete bodies,” that have entirely lost their humanity in commission of their crimes against humanity. (However, I will always argue that this can never be a justification to exact cruelty upon them, as we necessarily lose our humanity in that process).

            And there are so many people with “incomplete” bodies who are amazingly beautiful and strong human beings.

  • @Gigan
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    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.

    • Kbin_space_program
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      Pregnant women would increase the average to greater than one complete skeleton per person.

      • @[email protected]
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        710 months ago

        But are those bones in the body of the pregnant woman, or is the body of the fetus a different set?

        • Greg Clarke
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          710 months ago

          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.

      • Carl
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        310 months ago

        Oh, don’t forget conjoined twins.

  • @MTK
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    Probably false, the avarage probably has a bit less then needed fo a full skeleton.

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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

  • dream_weasel
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    1110 months ago

    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.

    • Carl
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      510 months ago

      I have 2 neighbours is missing a leg, and a family friend missing a finger. I am one of the outliers.

      • Greg Clarke
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        610 months ago

        Did these people lose their limbs before or after they met you?

      • dream_weasel
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        210 months ago

        That is a lot of missing bones. How many people would you estimate that you know though? I went to a small high school and I bet out of 500 total I knew 300 just from school. There are lots of family and coworkers and stuff that drive that number pretty high even if you know some amputees.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      But it still wouldn’t be an entire human skeleton, as there’s more to a skeleton than just the number of bones.

      • dream_weasel
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        310 months ago

        So by this logic, if you age and develop arthritis you no longer possess a complete human skeleton?

    • @Sidhean
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      You’ve finally done it. You out-akchuallied the pedantic nerds, becoming, yourself, the final gatekeeper of pedantry

  • Chef_Boyargee
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    910 months ago

    I feel like there should be a joke in here about giving someone’s mom an extra bone last night

  • @NotMelon
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    HOW???!!! How is that possible? I blame illuminati for this.

  • @Snapz
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    710 months ago

    Big (body) if true

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        You sure? I think it might be lower considering lost limbs and so. Pregnancies would raise it but pregnancy is temporary while lost limbs tend to be permanent.

  • @[email protected]
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    510 months ago

    technically, because noone has a higher amount of bones but many people have less, this is false.

  • @Seudo
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    Some people say there’s a spooky skeleton inside you right now!