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You are 100% incorrect. Go look it up in the dictionary. Mean == Average, by definition. Median is the middle point of a set, and mode is completely different,
by pfarnsworth 8y ago
You are 100% incorrect. Go look it up in the dictionary.
Mean == Average, by definition. Median is the middle point of a set, and mode is completely different, it's the most frequent number in a set. In no shape of form is "mode" ever confused with "average".
- zwily 8y agoThe first few dictionaries I looked at online said, in the first or second definition for “average”, something about it being “mean, median, or mode”: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/average https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/average https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/average https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/average I agree that arithmetic mean is usually what’s meant, but clearly median and mode can also be rightfully called “averages”.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoI like Merriam-Webster's first definition, which eschews any math terms and defines it as the value most representative of a set of data