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Does 'average crowd of humans' mean 'common people'? Here is the example, which is from 'Baker's blue-jay yarn' by Mark Twain.
They all examined the hole, they all made the sufferer tell it over again, then they all discussed it, and got off as many leather-headed opinions about it as an average crowd of humans could have done.
If, on any street corner, some hubbub caused people to gather round to gawk, you would find there a "cross-section" of society. It would be "an average crowd". You might find in such a crowd a doctor, a baker, a wheelwright, a barber, a mother, a war veteran, a child, an ex-convict.
