ickplant@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 23 hours agoIt's depressing, manlemmy.worldimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1977arrow-down12
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minus-squareSuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·21 hours agoAverages don’t always* work like that. In a lot of real world cases, that statement is accurate enough. When we are doing average wealth then yea, the numbers will be skewed a lot, but something like height would likely have similar mean and median.
minus-squaresqgl@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·20 hours agoAverage ≠ mean necessarily
minus-squareSuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours agoBut it does in this context no? We are talking arithmetic here
minus-squaresqgl@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoNo. There are various ways to calculate the average: mean, median, mode etc
Averages don’t always* work like that. In a lot of real world cases, that statement is accurate enough. When we are doing average wealth then yea, the numbers will be skewed a lot, but something like height would likely have similar mean and median.
Average ≠ mean necessarily
But it does in this context no? We are talking arithmetic here
No. There are various ways to calculate the average: mean, median, mode etc