Sentence:  Similarly, the next time you learn from your reading that the average <WSD>man</WSD> (you hear a good deal about him these days, most of it faintly improbable) brushes his teeth 1.02 times a day&mdash;a figure I have just made up, but it may be as good as anyone else's – ask yourself a question. How can anyone have found out such a thing? Is a woman who has read in countless advertisements that non-brushers are social offenders going to confess to a stranger that she does not brush her teeth regularly? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)