"Ninotchka" ends up proposing a kind of moral average between the blue bloods and the Bolsheviks.
For example, the worst-performing feature studied, drinking fountains, improved, on average, between the two reports.
So you can fly one leg in economy and one in business class for the average between the economy and the business-class value of an award ticket.
Contemporary theories of "blending inheritance" proposed that offspring merely struck an average between the characteristics of their parents.
If you take the average between the FiveThirtyEight model and the consensus betting lines, you'd get about a two-in-three chance of Mr. Obama winning another term.
Last season, he was 15-5 with a 3.48 earned run average between the Brewers and the Angels, with 200 strikeouts in 2121/3 innings.
They find a stunning gap of 37 percentage points, on average, between the proportion of economists and of ordinary Americans agreeing with a particular statement (see chart).
On average between the four polls, it appears that Mr. Obama must have held about an eight-point lead since Mr. Clinton's speech in order to have gained so much ground so quickly.
On average between the six daily tracking polls and two other national surveys that were published on Friday, Mr. Obama held a nominal lead over Mitt Romney of one-half a percentage point.
The average between the avant-garde and the neo-Romantic turns out to be (drumroll, please)... neo-Shostakovich, as exemplified by Mr. Penderecki's Second Violin Concerto, which received such a condescending press in New York when Anne-Sophie Mutter, its dedicatee, played it last month.
which is the weighted average between the two mixtures.
