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Astonishing (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] theFibonacciEffect@feddit.de 197 points 1 year ago

About 50% of people are below average

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This cracks me up because it is often said with such confidence, but it is just wrong.

If you have 10 people, 8 have an intelligence score of 1, 1 has a score of 5 and 1 has a score of 10. The average is 2.3 which means that 80% of the people are below average.

The median is the only thing that is going to guarantee 50%.

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People who don't know that average can be mean, median or mode depending on the context crack me up.

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Average is the mean, not median or mode. This doesn't change on context. Average is always mean.

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No. It's not.

a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values

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Depending on the context, the most representative statistic to be taken as the average might be another measure of central tendency, such as the mid-range, median, or mode.

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