"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

"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.