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-squareRonin_5@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoWith a normal distribution, the average is good. With a skewed distribution, the median is okay. But to get a better idea of the skewedness of a distribution, you need the mean, median, and stdev.
With a normal distribution, the average is good. With a skewed distribution, the median is okay.
But to get a better idea of the skewedness of a distribution, you need the mean, median, and stdev.