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In most practical situations, your initial impression is correct. As a native English speaker, I've never heard seen or heard someone use "average" to refer to
by andrewflnr 6y ago
In most practical situations, your initial impression is correct. As a native English speaker, I've never heard seen or heard someone use "average" to refer to a statistical summary other than the mean. If it doesn't refer to the mean, it doesn't mean anything formal/technical at all. I read GP as "median is sort of an average in the broad sense", but this is honestly kind of a stretch.
- sjg007 6y agoMath definitions only..
- nostrebored 6y agoI see it quite commonly, from technical discussions to newspaper article. When people say "the average income in the US" they are almost never talking about the mean.
- oblio 6y agoI think they are. I doubt any newspaper articles use it to refer to the median, at least I've never seen them use it like that. Do you have any examples?
- nostrebored 6y agoAlmost every discussion about average salary or iq uses median. Even finding results for mean salary is difficult. The first page of results for mean us salary gives a list of results for average, many of which specify they are actually the median. https://www.google.com/search?q=mean+us+salary https://www.google.com/search?q=mean+us+salary
- oblio 6y agoWell, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average... as a counterpoint. Almost all the Wikipedia pages about average wage use mean.