• Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Such irony that this comment gets downvoted on a meme about failing education

    Even with a simple, yet very clear example

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      6 months ago

      What’s ironic here is your comment, lol. “Average” can and is absolutely used to say mean or median or any other average that is representative based on the dataset in question. When you ask a statistician to calculate an average of a dataset they probably won’t just go calculate the mean, they’ll think about which value is most appropriate in context.