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Re:Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic by theandrewbailey on Friday May 20, 2016 @03:11PM (#11740596)
Median is the middle value of all values in a sequence. Average is the sum of all numbers in a sequence, divided by the count of values.

Take [0,2,100]: average is 34, but median is 2.

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Re:Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic by trentmb on Friday May 20, 2016 @03:35PM (#11740784)
nostrebored is just pointing out that the median and arithmetic mean are both averages.
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Re:Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic by nostrebored on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:01PM (#11740997)
I'm being needlessly pedantic, but yeah.
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