greylag answers Is there a term for ‘the mistake of making a decision based on averages when you could cherry picked instead’?

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Nominate “statisticians’ duck hunt”, after this joke

Three statisticians go duck hunting. They see a duck and the first statistician shoots, hitting two feet to the left of the duck. The second statistician shoots, hitting two feet to the right of the duck. The third statistician leaps up in joy, yelling, “We got it!”