One of my best friends is a surgeon, and whenever one of his patients dies, you can be sure he blames the anaesthatist. (View Post)

Don't worry @Fishing: your classmates were being sarcastic. (View Post)

You said "the average mother", so (a) you've already eliminated all the childless women, and (b) you've made the mother the key, so your language implies median rather than mean. (View Post)

I'm sorry to be a pedant, but the average UK mother has two children. The average (mean) number of children born to a woman of child-bearing age is 1.57. (View Post)

Or, technically, over her child-bearing years, British women will bear an average of 1.57 children. (View Post)