Doesn’t using mode just make a lot more sense? You are much more likely to be the mode than you are likely to be average in the mean class

[Originally said average in the title, fixed thanks to jbrains]

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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    9 months ago

    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 45, 98, 100, 100 => 100

    1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 45, 98, 99, 100 => 3

    1, 2.999, 3, 4, 5, 45, 98, 99.999, 100 => ?

    It will only work on datasets where you have few very distincts values but also lots of values.

    I guess we don’t like it eather because shitty headlines would have a field day if people even knew “mode” might be about in statistics (or am I thinking too french?). Thank god for that naming BTW.