Ben Carter
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694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, so the median is the average where you look at the middle value.
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Take this example.
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Imagine we had 99 men my age in this room, and we decided to follow their progress over the rest of the century.
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If two of them walked out of the building and got knocked over by a bus, it would bring the simple average down.
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But with the median, we wouldn't be interested in the ones who had bad luck.
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But what happened to the 50th man, the one in the middle?
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According to Professor Valpel, he would live to 97.
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Yes.
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In our example, the mode would be the age with the most number of deaths.
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The professor's figures suggest half of our group of men would die before our middleman at 97, and half after.
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Clearly, the ones living past 97 can't have much longer to go, so we would expect the most common year of death to be even older than 97.
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Professor Valpole.
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So the short answer to how long you're going to live is... Maybe to 70 or 86 or possibly, if current trends continue, 100.
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Really?
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Well, it's good fun, a huge global success, and there are interesting numbers involved with the climactic scene on the runway.
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Ruth, we would never do that.
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Spoiling the film is the job of the movie trailer.
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We won't be talking about anything that isn't in that trailer.
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In the scene that we're interested in, a huge cargo plane lands on a runway where it's chased by fast cars and furious men and women.
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Some cars manage to drive onto the plane through the cargo doors at the back while it's taxiing along the runway, for various plot reasons which are too contrived to mention.
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