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I hope nobody is actually redefining the word "average" to mean median, because that would confuse all I thought I knew about statistics. Is there a less alleg
by emiliobumachar 13y ago
I hope nobody is actually redefining the word "average" to mean median, because that would confuse all I thought I knew about statistics.
Is there a less allegedly ambiguous term for the "traditional" definition of average, that is, the sum of many measurements of the same characteristic, divided by the number of elements measured?
- robmil 13y agoMean, surely?
- emiliobumachar 13y agoVery true. Thank you.
- nitrogen 13y agoAverage can refer to any of the common measures of central tendency, as Wikipedia calls them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Harmonic_mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Harmonic_mean Average intelligence, for example, refers to median intelligence (equivalent to an IQ of 100). Mean intelligence, however, is likely the same as median intelligence due to its normal distribution.