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With all due respect, you are just trying really hard to be pedantic. Your convoluted, contorted, corner-case example does not invalidate anything that was said here. You even had to resort to the word "rounded" to make it work. Without "rounded", most would be below mean.

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> at least one has to be below (average)

this is the pedantic part. Normal usage of average means "pretty much what I expected", which is what they are trying to convey, imo.

I think normally usage, that is non mathematical usage, doesn't mean what I expected, it means the middle of available options, or perhaps the most common option. When applied to quality one would expect that means there is low quality, average quality, and high quality. So I seriously don't know what this means in a legal context.

Buying eggs is not a corner case. But buying 12.1 eggs certainly is. I think you're projecting a little bit here.

In any case, "average" does not mean "arithmetic mean." It means, mathematically, any of the median, mode, or mean or in standard vernacular, of typical or usual characteristics (i.e., close to mode).

You don't get to just arbitrarily pick a definition that fits your viewpoint and start going "all due respect" on other people.

> It means, mathematically

In this case we're not in a mathematical context though.

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