I agree and my phrasing may not have been exact. I meant that if you need to pick a number for a whole group of people, then you look at the average.
This can be in the context of industrial production where you have thousands of workers and are forced to have fixed shifts (because you cannot run the assembly line without all the stations filled).
Or, in more modern example, a public sector bureaucracy where you cannot be very flexible as these things are negotiated with a union as whole.
I agree and my phrasing may not have been exact. I meant that if you need to pick a number for a whole group of people, then you look at the average.
This can be in the context of industrial production where you have thousands of workers and are forced to have fixed shifts (because you cannot run the assembly line without all the stations filled).
Or, in more modern example, a public sector bureaucracy where you cannot be very flexible as these things are negotiated with a union as whole.