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Re:Healthy Self-Doubt by nostrebored on Saturday July 11, 2020 @11:01AM (#23802667)
"Different concepts of average are used in different contexts. Often "average" refers to the arithmetic mean, the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are being averaged. In statistics, mean, median, and mode are all known as measures of central tendency, and in colloquial usage any of these might be called an average value."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average

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Re:Healthy Self-Doubt by kubanczyk on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:01PM (#23803143)
Don't call me mad again, but realize that the citation you've provided literally says: the parent is "often" right and you "might be" also right. Sigh.
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Re:Healthy Self-Doubt by nostrebored on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:09PM (#23803188)
That's not how categories work.
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