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Why do reports about anything always use the averages as a way to describe normalcy, when the median is a much better metric of that? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

There's plenty of good answers already, but a big one is that the writers don't know any better, and not understanding the difference of average, mean and median is one of the most common mistakes to make