Several of the methods used for finding exoplanets are biased so that they're more likely to find exoplanets that are both really big (Jupiter-size or bigger) and really close to their star (much closer than Earth)
As methods of detecting exoplanets get better, I think they're starting to find more systems with multiple planets so the average is probably more than 1
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Several of the methods used for finding exoplanets are biased so that they're more likely to find exoplanets that are both really big (Jupiter-size or bigger) and really close to their star (much closer than Earth)
As methods of detecting exoplanets get better, I think they're starting to find more systems with multiple planets so the average is probably more than 1