Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.
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acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 day agoI think you mean then median person. 🤓
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Considering intelligence/stupidity isn’t defined, it’s a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
I don’t totally disagree, I’ve never seen an actual distribution of random iq scores
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
And there’s plenty of criticism of IQ tests as a proxy for intelligence, even if we did have the data.
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Oh crap. Translating average to my language yields the same word as mean. But you’re right.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.
sukhmel@programming.dev 14 hours ago
What they mean is that all three are different kinds of averaging. This is correct, but I don’t think people in general think ‘median’ when they hear ‘average’
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Not a native English speaker here. Today I learned, too. Thank you.