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Off topic, but I always struggle between "half is below average" vs "half is below median". One is technically incorrect, understood by everyone but attacts nit
by msm_ 4y ago
Off topic, but I always struggle between "half is below average" vs "half is below median". One is technically incorrect, understood by everyone but attacts nitpickers, and the other one is technically (more) correct (and I like it) but comes of as pedantic or even pretentious. I usually pick one depending on the audience.
- JohnFen 4y agoI agree entirely. I'm just always amused by the joke "you know how dumb the average person is? Well, half of everyone is dumber than that". Not because of the overt joke (which rests on the incorrect and snobby idea that the average person is dumb), but because in mixing up "average" for "median", the joke itself is like a dumb person complaining about how dumb people are.