ickplant@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 13 hours agoIt's depressing, manlemmy.worldimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1853arrow-down11
arrow-up1852arrow-down1imageIt's depressing, manlemmy.worldickplant@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 13 hours agomessage-square40fedilink
minus-squareSuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 hours agoAverages don’t always* work like that. In a lot of real world cases, that statement is accurate enough. When we are doing average wealth then yea, the numbers will be skewed a lot, but something like height would likely have similar mean and median.
minus-squaresqgl@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·10 hours agoAverage ≠ mean necessarily
minus-squareSuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoBut it does in this context no? We are talking arithmetic here
Averages don’t always* work like that. In a lot of real world cases, that statement is accurate enough. When we are doing average wealth then yea, the numbers will be skewed a lot, but something like height would likely have similar mean and median.
Average ≠ mean necessarily
But it does in this context no? We are talking arithmetic here