I haven't assumed that you have said that. Do you think an average home user should run AV?
Now, if you do run untrusted executables and want to keep your machine operating in an insecure state for as long as possible between reinstalls. Maybe antivirus makes sense, but you are not secure.
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Home users don't need antivirus, they need a copilot telling them not to do dumb things before they do them. (See: seatbelt reminders)
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They need an OS that's not full of footguns. There should not be any non-expert UI for executing downloaded exe with your own perms.
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One measure of security efficacy would be "period between successful attacks", surely?
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