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 'Average' referred to ..<The undiscovered Self with symbols and the interpretation of dreams>by Carl Gustav Jung page 5) If, for instance, I determine the weight of each stone in a bed of pebbles and get an average weight of five stones, this tells me very little about the real nature of the pebbles. Anyone who thought, on the basis of these findings, that he could pick up a pebble of five ounces at the first try would be in for serious disappointment. Indeed, it might well happen that however long he searched he would not find a single pebble weighing exactly five ounces.