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But that's median not average...
by ElonMuskrat 7y ago
But that's median not average...
- chrisseaton 7y agoI don’t know what you think ‘average’ means. Median is an average.
- Avalaxy 7y agoMost commonly it is used for the mean though...
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- Retric 7y agoLess than you might think. Mean is easier to calculate and tends to be close enough, but when there are are significant outliers people tend to revert to the median. Life expectancy for example is calculated via median. Median income is generally used over average etc.
- chrisseaton 7y agoMean wouldn’t make any sense in this context. Does a mean pilot even exist? Median pilots exist by definition.
- Avalaxy 7y agoIf you can order pilots by some quantifiable measure, you can also take the mean of that and select pilots that are exactly the mean or closests to the mean.
- ElonMuskrat 7y agohttps://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
- criley2 7y agoGiven set: 1 2 2 2 2 2 4 10 What's the average? 3.125 What's the median? 2
- wimagguc 7y agoMean is 3.125, median is 2, and mode is 2. All of those are averages.