Sidenote-- is average === mean the standard lexicon now? When I was in grade school we learned that average was a generic term for mean, median, or mode. So wh

Sidenote-- is average === mean the standard lexicon now? When I was in grade school we learned that average was a generic term for mean, median, or mode. So when I see average conflated with median in discussion (as it often is), I assume it's intentional. But others seem to interpret it as a synonym of mean.