Willravel

Maybe a better way to do this would be to set up different systems of comparison and label them. Some systems clearly do have inequalities in represented data and as such should be recognized as such, but that hardly means that all systems have the same equalities or that even all systems are unequal.

Yes, my solution does require that one learn new things *gasp*, but quite frankly, I believe that if one is to stay adequately informed it takes work.

Edit: I'll add a rudimentary example of what I'm talking about. Once upon a time when Maths were in their infancy, people wanted to understand averages. The problem? There are different ways to calculate averages.

Man 1 firmly believed that the best way was to present the usual average (4 + 4 + 6) ÷ 3 ~ 4.6

Man 2 firmly believed that the middle number was the average. ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Man 3 absolutely believed the number that is repeated more often than any other is the average (1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8), and he was also sleeping with man 1's wife, but that's moot.

What was done? Each was given a name—mean, median, and mode—and maths smiled.