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Half the students are below average! This is outrageous!
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Below the median
Unless scores follow a standard (or any other symmetric) distribution
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Yes, and therefore the original comment was wrong and needed to be corrected.
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It’s absolutely not. Median is a value in the middle of a sorted set and average is, well, average. In the set of 1, 7, 10: 7 is median and 6 is average.
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