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Only if it's a standard distribution (eg bell curve). It's quite possible with a non-standard distribution to have much more than half above average as well.
by nuclear_eclipse 17y ago
Only if it's a standard distribution (eg bell curve). It's quite possible with a non-standard distribution to have much more than half above average as well. Now median on the other hand, by definition, separates the distribution in half... </pedantic>
- plorkyeran 17y agoOr perhaps much more than half below average.
- jacobolus 17y agoGiven that there’s no reasonable way to quantify programmers, and we could arbitrarily change the scale however we like even if there were, usage like “average programmer” is generally understood to mean the same thing that “median programmer” would mean, if we had such a rubric (since we don’t, “average” is a fine term). Your pedantry is misplaced.