Part 2 Of Saturday Blog 

When Life Refuses to Average Out

Statistics, Probability & Humanity

Opening Reflection

Not all data lies in textbooks.

Some data sits quietly beside us - in auto-rickshaws, cabs, signals, and silences.

After that incident, more stories unfolded - each an outlier, yet part of a larger pattern.

More Realities from the Road

The same driver shared a contrasting memory.

Once, during heavy rain, a lady with her school-going child waited for a cab. Though the distance was short - often refused by drivers - he agreed. She offered a ₹500 note. The driver advised her to keep change, especially while travelling with a child. He returned the exact amount without cutting even a rupee.

Touched, she said, “You speak like my father. I see him in you.”

She didn’t take the money back.

That was the day when probability of goodness defeated certainty of expectation.

My Own Failure

I remembered my own incident.

Sharing an auto-rickshaw, two of us paid ₹10 each. A third passenger paid only ₹3. I argued - but left midway to catch my train.

Justice incomplete.

Courage partial.

Life reminded me:

We don’t forget lessons.

We forget to apply them to ourselves.

Statistics of the Mind

Why isn’t empathy the mean, median, or mode of our actions?

• ₹49 → fight for ₹1

• ₹51 → “No change”

Cleverness becomes the arithmetic mean.

Empathy becomes an outlier.

My mother's wisdom echoed:

“If a driver leaves ₹1 for 100 people, it becomes ₹100.”

That’s not arithmetic alone.

That’s human statistics.

Human behaviour follows a skewed distribution:

• Silent majority is fair

• Vocal minority distorts perception

• Drivers absorb the variance

Probability, Philosophy & eˣ

Some people are stationary functions.

Like eˣ - 

Differentiate or integrate, they remain unchanged.

Life tests them repeatedly.

They return the same result.

Statistics reveals patterns.

Probability humbles certainty.

Between chance and choice lies humanity.

Reflections

I do not support misconduct.

I do not justify misbehaviour.

But I appeal for understanding.

Drivers are not exceptions to society.

They are part of the same sample space.

Takeaways

• Statistics teaches patterns, not judgment

• Probability teaches humility

• Empathy must be normally distributed

• Outliers exist on both sides

• Humanity must remain constant, even when outcomes aren’t

Question for the Reader

If empathy were measured statistically,

would your actions fall within the normal distribution - or remain an outlier?

From the Desk of the Author

I support no side.

I support humanity.

Disclaimer

This reflection is based on lived experiences and observations.

No profession or individual is generalized or targeted.

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— Rakesh Kushwaha

Educator | Writer | Observer of Life’s Mathematics