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average physics student vs POTUS 47 (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 13 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Can't speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Oh crap. Translating average to my language yields the same word as mean. But you're right.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Considering intelligence/stupidity isn't defined, it's a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.

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