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[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Average how?

[account-5 → mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Exactly how it means. Your average consumer of smart or internet connected devices.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl → account-5]

Again, average in what metric? Almost no one is just average in general. That's not even well defined.

You defined a superset(consumer of smart devices), but you're still missing a metric.

Is it average IQ? Tech literacy? Legal expertise? Paranoia?

Without specifying these things, you are essentially saying nothing all. Does not compile.

[account-5 → mtlmtlmtlmtl]

The average consumer of smart devices is exactly that, that is the metric. Tacking on further metrics buy which to divid a group is a never ending game. How much specificity do you actually want? Shall we take in a person's DNA? How many electrons are in their body? What timescale shall we set.

Without generalisation, or being able to group things together you'll find it hard to make any statements about anything.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl → account-5]

I've never seen anyone so determined not to properly define their own statements. Oh well, have fun.

[stavros → mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Of all the people who buy smart home devices, ranked by how much they care about data, the median is "zero".

That's what that means, and what "the average HN reader" understands without having to be pedantic about it.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl → stavros]

You can call it pedantic if you want, I just don't like responding to statements that aren't even meaningfully defined.

[stavros → mtlmtlmtlmtl]

The phrase "the average buyer of X" has a very well-defined meaning, it means, roughly, "most people who buy X".

[account-5 → mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Similarly I've never seen anyone so determined to add requirements/move the goal posts.