Can You Please Explain This To Me?

Hi village! Long time no 'talk!' I have been too busy to get on mylot these days. I check in for just a moment or two when I can. As for the 'half' person, I think they had me in mind when they used that statistic. See, I have gained so much weight that one has to say that I count as more than a whole person, but not quite enough to say I count as two full people. Thus, I am a person and a half. I also eat enough on Thanksgiving day to count as more than one person. See, it was simple! Ha! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

Well with the medical technology we have now..I wouldn't be surprised to find half a person at my dinner table. Scary...almost funny...and oddly disturbing.. I think I'll shut up now.

Maybe they count dogs and cats as 1/2, so they can come to final conclusion... maybe family size in states is growing...or maybe finally someone agree that dogs and cats are family members...why not they get piece of turkey don't they?

I know people that barely have 1/2 of a brain..think that would count. Or we have 2 house, one had 7 people for dinner..the other 8. I guess that would average out to 7.5! Of course there are famillies that have 2.5 children. That poor kid must feel ignored.

It's actually quite simple. It's what happens when you invite 6 people for dinner (besides yourself) and an extra guest shows up. Since you only planned for 7 people you make the uninvited guest and the friend he tagged along with share a plate of food. It isn't hard to seat an 8th person at a table but it is amusing to pretend you only have a set of 7 chairs. Then you put the 8th person...the uninvited one of course...in either a tall bar stool so he'll bang his knees on he table or a low beach chair so they can barely see over the table. I'm willing to bet they won't show up unexpectedly again!

That is kinda funny. I would have to guess they are using babies for the half a person since young babies can't eat turkey yet that is the only thing I can think of. You should email butterball and ask them to explain and see what they come up with.

I think what they mean is 7 adults and a child or baby , thats only a guess , but makes sense to me ... Happy Thanksgiving ...

Maybe they are considering small children as 1/2? I could never understand the 1/2 of anything when it comes to counting people.

It must be that child that was part of the average family--you know, the 2.5 children. Actually, I guess this means we all need to find a partner family and invite 15 people between us. Happy Thanksgiving.

That .5 person is the child of the average 2.5 children per family size....

It does not mean literally half a person. It is the average. If you have 7 guests, and I have 8, the average is 7.5. No one actually has half a guest, but the average doesn't come out to an even number. It's the same thing as the average American family has 2.5 children. Obviously, they are not saying people have half of a child, but that if you have 2 children and I have 3, on average, we have 2.5.

For example there are 15 people and there are two tables ,you can get 7.5 people per table.

they do some really weird things in statistics like the average family is four.six people now how do you get .6 of a person?