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I'm not sure you are parsing what "average" means.

• valuearb 6y ago
  It was just a (innacurate) turn of phrase. A better way of saying it only 47% of Americans paying federal taxes contribute to Stars and Stripes.
• liability 6y ago
  Median seems as valid an 'average' as mean.
• srtjstjsj 6y ago
  "average" usually means "mode" or "median" when used as "average person". The meaning can be inferred from context or clarified. "Mean" is almost never correct for distributions that aren't near uniform, and never correct for distributions that aren't even near normal and not near symmetric.