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People who don’t know that average can be mean, median or mode depending on the context crack me up.

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Average is the mean, not median or mode. This doesn’t change on context. Average is always mean.

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Average is always mean.

Just like the average person

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No. It’s not.

a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values

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Depending on the context, the most representative statistic to be taken as the average might be another measure of central tendency, such as the mid-range, median, or mode.

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