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   Luc (luc@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 04:36:57 JST Luc

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan median, not average, for a start

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 04:36:56 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @luc

     "average: [...] Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode."

     https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/average

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 13:42:21 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @luc it is the word I would use when I don't want to argue about medians, means, and modes.

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     Luc (luc@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 13:42:22 JST Luc

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan huh, okay that's not how the word is used where I'm from! Would you interpret it as that broad a set of options in Canada? Wondering if this is just the broad definition that Wikipedia gives given that it's often misused, or if it's actually what people mean when they say this

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:54:07 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @luc You weren't arguing; you were correcting.

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     Luc (luc@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:54:09 JST Luc

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan sorry if it came across as arguing