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So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish · 1984
The Census report, like most such surveys, had cost an awful lot of money and didn’t tell anybody anything they didn’t already know – except that every single person in the Galaxy had 2.4 legs and owned a hyena.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The passage mocks an expensive census that supposedly discovers nothing useful except an absurd average: everyone has fractional legs and owns a hyena. The ridiculous result exposes the gap between statistical neatness and individual reality. Official precision becomes a source of confusion instead of knowledge.
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