> I have never in my time in 8 years of math classes ever heard the term "average" referred to as the median or mode. Good, I've never seen that too, as I said

> I have never in my time in 8 years of math classes ever heard the term "average" referred to as the median or mode. Good, I've never seen that too, as I said. > When median or mode has been meant, it has always been explicitly stated as such. As I said. > The more vague "average" being left to implicitly reference the arithmetic mean average of "sum total divided by count of values" This is not the case in common usage which is exactly the reason this comment thread started.