Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 1 day agoCan’t speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.
Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 1 day agoCan’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 22 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 12 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 10 hours ago
Not a native English speaker here. Today I learned, too. Thank you.