Talk:73/@comment-172.249.134.112-20150506224310/@comment-172.249.134.112-20150602222303

To the person who posted the reply: " Actualy it is between  36,5 & 37,2 so the normal temperature ~36.8  92.83.211.176"

You're from Romania and still use commas instead of periods so what do you know... just kidding. But I'm not kidding when I say that you really need to think problems through a little more. As my mother would say, it's better to be thought a fool than to open yoru mouth and remove the doubt. For starters, to say that the "normal" of 36.5 and 37.2 is 36.8 isn't entirely correct. You just gave a range. That would assume the distribution to be a standard normal curve, but thats not true about body termperature. The distribution is skewed toward the higher temperatures. The mean, median and mode thus are not the same. The peak value, or the mode of the non-normal distribution is 37c, not 36.8

The NHS (National Health Service) says that a normal temperature is around 37C (98.6F), although it depends on:
 * The person
 * Their age (Given that body temperature goes down with age and the age distribution worldwide is skewed right this means that there are more people in the world with higher temperatures than lower temperatures. http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v13n2/vonhippel_figure1.gif http://www.indexmundi.com/world/age_structure.html
 * What they've been doing
 * The time of day
 * Which part of the body you take the temperature from (rectum; 0.5 degrees higher & Axilary; 0.5 degrees lower)