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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by mythhouse on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:56AM (#33507471)
NHTSA uses the word average not median.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by lukeschlather on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:32AM (#33508054)
NHTSA says 50th percentile: https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsas-crash-test-dummies
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by mythhouse on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:38AM (#33508152)
Ah Thanks. I was going off the image in the linked article

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62877930

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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by ryeights on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:11AM (#33507706)
Median is an average.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by aikendrum on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:26AM (#33507938)
In common use average refers to the mean.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by sgtnoodle on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:32PM (#33509070)
In common use, average means "typical" or "central". There isn't one specific statistical meaning.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by kgwgk on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:34PM (#33509107)
In this case it doesn’t.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by sgtnoodle on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:29PM (#33509015)
Average can commonly refer to mean, median, or mode depending on context. It's good to use "mean" when precision is important.
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