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How to calculate the average of all object properties without specifying them explicitly by name?

I'm trying to figure out a robust way to calculate the average of object properties in case there are too many to be specified explicitly by their name.

I found this nice gist that helps in case we have just a few properties:

const someData = 
[   
    { height: 176, weight: 87 },
    { height: 190, weight: 103 },
    { height: 180, weight: 98 } 
]

// for height
var sumHeight = (prev, cur) => ({height: prev.height + cur.height});
var avgHeight = someData.reduce(sumHeight).height / someData.length;
console.log(avgHeight); // => gives 182

// for weight
var sumWeight = (prev, cur) => ({weight: prev.weight + cur.weight});
var avgWeight = someData.reduce(sumWeight).weight / someData.length;
console.log(avgWeight); // => gives 96

But this method is limited in terms of scaling if we have lots of properties, for example:

const someDataExtended = 
[   
    { height: 176, weight: 87, salary: 100000, age: 20, numOfCats: 2 },
    { height: 190, weight: 103, salary: 100050, age: 40, numOfCats: 0 },
    { height: 180, weight: 98, salary: 20345, age: 50, numOfCats: 1 } 
]

How can I average across all properties without specifying them by name? Ideally, I'd like to map over someDataExtended without mutating the initial data, but rather generate a summary such as:

const finalSummary = {
    height: 182,
    weight: 96,
    salary: 73465,
    numOfCats: 1
}
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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