This is one thing that irritates me about a tool I work with: It has built-in functions to calculate a median and to calculate an average, by which it means the arithmetic mean. I tend to use the median because the data I work with has severe outliers skewing the mean, but then I have to explain what that means (heh).
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
That is a bit of a misnomer since figuring things out requires at least a double-digit IQ and I don’t have one of those. –TheGreatWhiteNorthFreePress
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Well, a two digit IQ is below average, so…….
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The median is an average
luciferofastora@feddit.org 7 hours ago
This is one thing that irritates me about a tool I work with: It has built-in functions to calculate a median and to calculate an average, by which it means the arithmetic mean. I tend to use the median because the data I work with has severe outliers skewing the mean, but then I have to explain what that means (heh).
TomArrr@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
So they would be the mode of the mean below the median?