It is a half decent Fermi approximation though.
Comment on What is the average temperature of earth?
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 months agoThat’s a pretty dumb way of calculating average since it’s just the average of the biggest value and the smallest value. That’s neither mean, median, or mode for the whole planet. It needs to be weighted by volume or mass in order to be an accurate average.
sknowmads@dormi.zone 6 months ago
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 months ago
I mean OP asked for average, that’s how average calculated 🤷
Median is impossible to calculate since you need a whole array of data to know what’s in the middle. I think anything other than that is impossible because we need gazillion of data to even getting close to the accurate answer, that’s why all answer out there is usually categorised and in estimate.
EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s not how average is calculated, that would be the average if there were two particles, one 5200 and one -94. The average is the sum of all values divided by the number of values. Not the max plus the min divided by 2.
KnowLimits@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If only there were some extensive property of matter we could multiply with the temperature to compute a weighted average. That would be massively helpful.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OP has also asked for meaningful