• rottingleaf
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    7 months ago

    He’s not accurate, though. That’d be the median person. With the average person I’d expect much more than half to be stupider than that.

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      7 months ago

      Mean, median, and mode are measures of central tendency aka average. It’s usually context that indicates which measure we are using when we say average. A lot of the time, when speaking of the average person, we’re using the median or mode rather than the mean.

      How many fingers does your average person have?

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        7 months ago

        I was joking and also didn’t know that average in English can be any one of them.