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Why is this considered a paradox? It seems mathematically obvious that moving a value from a set in which it is the lowest to a set in which it is the highest will raise the average of both sets. If you chop the left-hand side off one tree and nail it onto the right-hand side of another tree, then both will tend to fall over towards the right. 143.252.80.110 15:50, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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