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That's wrong though, as average will be different from median in skewed distributions.
by rhn_mk1 5y ago
That's wrong though, as average will be different from median in skewed distributions.
- inimino 5y agoThe reason why we say "arithmetic mean" when we want to be precise is because "average" can mean any centralizing statistic. The great Carlin no doubt realized the joke would not go off as well with the word "median", and the way he told it wasn't wrong.
- rhn_mk1 5y agoIn my defense, I had only 1/n chance to correctly guess which statistic he meant ;)