“Nu judec oamenii după cele mai mari greșeli ale lor.” – Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (Avengers: Endgame (2019))
“I don’t judge people on their worst mistakes.” – Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (Avengers: Endgame (2019))
A more detailed quote (Avengers: Endgame (2019) – IMDb):
Natasha Romanoff : What, you think I want to do it? I’m trying to save *your* life, you idiot.
Clint Barton : Yeah, well, I don’t want you to, how’s that? Natasha, you know what I’ve done. You know what I’ve become.
Natasha Romanoff : Well, I don’t judge people on their worst mistakes.
Clint Barton : Maybe you should.
Natasha Romanoff : You didn’t.
Clint Barton : You’re a pain in my ass, you know that?
In a group, there are people who make mistakes, and some who excel at something.
Don’t judge Romania for a blunder, judge it for the average.
In the same way, a living man makes a mistake. Treat it as an exception, and see the average behavior of the person.
If you can, even the best one.
In statistics, there’s a difference between median and average value (mean):
Sometimes the median is used as an alternative to the mean. Just like the mean value, the median also represents the location of a set of numerical data by means of a single number. Roughly speaking, the median is the value that splits the individual data into two halves: the (approximately) 50% largest and 50% lowest data in the collective.
(source – Stuck in the middle – mean vs. median: when to use which?)
In statistics, sometimes, you’ll need to avoid the extremes. In life, I think it’s also better to look at averages, rather than extremes.
