[Neil Stevens]

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It wasn't there, but "how long on average does he expect to live" implies the expected value or mean, as long as there isn't any information to the contrary, though there are other types of averages. This is not the same as the amount of time that gives him a 50% chance of being killed, which is the median = 138 seconds. In fact, he has about a 63% chance of being killed in the mean length of time he has to live, which is 199 seconds.

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Guess I'm too used to non-mathematically inclined people who usually don't know exactly what they mean when they say average.

thanks,