On Thu 07 Feb, thuggy666 wrote:
I think the main bulk of KLF fans are in the UK and Germany- and if you average those out geographically you get France. There aren't that many US fans all things considered- they might make a big difference and mean that the average KLF fan lives in Western France perhaps...
Benoit Mandelbrot once said "I hate averages. My father was French and my mother was German. Does that make me Belgian?"
Well it was only a suggestion. But for the sake of argument, yes, based on that information, Benoit Mandelbrot was a whiney moaney philosophical Belgian.
What would happen if we were to statistically weight the averages as a percentage of the population of the country? Our "average KLF fan" would probably end up in Egypt or Africa.
What if we were to work out how well the average KLF fan dances, and then we could form a ballet company and start putting on performances like "What Nutcracker Suite Is Love" and "It's Grim Up Swan Lake"...
(And how do you average points on a sphere anyway? Do Australian fans 'pull' the average clockwise or anticlockwise around the earth?
You need a reference point- in the TV programme, Dave Gorman uses his house in London, although that's not too far away from the Greenwich Meridian which might be a more well-known line to draw. It's a slightly arbitary system- as far as people in the UK and their maps are concerned, the Americas are all West of Europe, and Asia and Australasia all East of Europe. It's sometimes easy to forget that if you were travelling from the US to New Zealand then there's a shortcut that you could take that might be quicker than flying over Africa...
One thing is for sure... your average KLF fan, at least on this mailing list, is Male!
Yes, but statistically, he probably plays football like a girl. Stuart. -- Stuart Bruce - klf@atomiser.demon.co.uk or preferably stuart@atomiser.demon.co.uk The Utah Saints Mailing List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/utahsaints/