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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by user5994461 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:41PM (#23851429)
French and English are strictly equivalent.

moyenne is mean or average. The formal name is "arithmetic mean" and "moyenne arithmétique".

median is médiane. people frequently use any word but median in both languages when they want to talk about the median.

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

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyenne_arithm%C3%A9tique

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by mjevans on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:20PM (#23852031)
Almost correct.

The mean, median, and mode are three types of averages. None is 'the average'; though if you asked someone random on the street they'd probably give you the mean average.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by awesome_dude on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:21AM (#23856644)
On an average day?

Mode: On a typical day <<-- most common meaning for average in day to day conversation

Mean: On a day that is in the calculated middle (for some variance) <<-- most common meaning when we think the question is about math

Median: On a day that is the middle for all the possible days <<-- nobody thinks of this, but they think this is what the mean is.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by IggleSniggle on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:49PM (#23854430)
This really depends on context. When evaluating a likelihood (prediction), "average" is generally colloquial for "expected median."
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