General@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · edit-211 months agoWhy do reports about anything always use the averages as a way to describe normalcy, when the median is a much better metric of that?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
arrow-up118arrow-down1message-squareWhy do reports about anything always use the averages as a way to describe normalcy, when the median is a much better metric of that?General@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · edit-211 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoI mean, they don’t always use the mean, and they don’t always use an average as a proxy for normalcy. And sometimes the mean is a better choice than the median. I don’t know what to do with overgeneralized, hyperbolic questions like this.
I mean, they don’t always use the mean, and they don’t always use an average as a proxy for normalcy. And sometimes the mean is a better choice than the median.
I don’t know what to do with overgeneralized, hyperbolic questions like this.