Comment by Zenst

> Yet if we set up a game with a penalty proportional to the distance between your guess and the true number of children for a family, and you guess the median or mode, you'll be right more often than I (because I will never be right), but you will also continually be losing money to my guess of the mean.

Not sure were you went there, but the point is that you can overdetail in a way that abstracts from reality.