BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal

Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by ginko on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:37PM (#46458940)

That’d be the median, not the average.

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Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by AceJohnny2 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:42PM (#46458979)

Torturers Inc, that operates in $country_i_hate & tortures over 10,000 people each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by bawolff on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:18PM (#46459795)

Fair point, although i would generally assume that ethical behaviour of companies is normally distributed.

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Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by lotsofpulp on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:26PM (#46459868)

Median/mean/mode/geometric are all types of averages.

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Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by yunnpp on Thursday January 01, 2026 @08:20PM (#46460284)

Then, mathematically, the original statement makes no sense.

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Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by eru on Thursday January 01, 2026 @09:41PM (#46460808)

The mode isn't any kind of average at all.

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