Schwab built its reputation as a friend of the average investor, cutting commissions in the 1970s when bigger brokerages held firm on the old fixed-rate schedule.
Falling in love pushes around two friends out of the average person's intimate social milieu, according to research from the anthropologist Robin Dunbar, as the newly coupled-up fall off the radar.
The number of friends that the average male user of Facebook exchanges messages with is, apparently, seven.
But he still believes in the idea of sub-groups of friends because the average user has something like 50 friends now — and people who use Facebook more often, have a lot more.
Because of his alliance with the Murdoch empire, he now has more people accused of serious crimes in his close circle of friends than the average petty thief.
Based on an admittedly unscientific survey (my friends), the average cost of an annual checkup in my area of Los Angeles is $50.
Pre-multiplying the vector Y by (tilde {boldsymbol {G}}) gives a vector containing, for each individual, the average outcome of his neighbours, and similarly (tilde {boldsymbol {G}}boldsymbol {X}) is a vector of the average characteristics of his friends.
The new app is more analytics-focused, plotting things like the number of friends you have versus the average number of friends for the typical Facebook user, breakdowns of friends by gender and, soon, a map showing where your friends live.
His friends of average height, on the other hand, don't even notice: "Once I was walking with my mate from secondary school and this kid must have walked past me, pointing.
Instead, he claims that he's mistaken for his friend, Jamie Hector of The Wire, on average "once a day".
