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Comment by cutemonster

5 months ago

A bit less than two

What about Frank Lentini ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lentini

  • Seems like he has more than the average number of legs as well.

    The fact that he has a wiki page, and that many folks with born without or who have lost legs (~500,000/year Americans experience limb loss or are born with a limb difference https://amputee-coalition.org/resources/limb-loss-statistics...) do not, suggest that the number of people with < 2 is far greater than the number of people with > 2. So the average is still less than 2.

    For better or worse, number of legs (or number of arms) is canonical example people use to demonstrate the statistical principal a significant majority of a population can be above average of some metric.

    • He must have been an amazing person. I imagine one easily gets bullied, when looking that different. But, from Wikipedia:

      > Lentini was so respected among his peers that he was often called "The King".