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Why do reports about anything always use the averages as a way to describe normalcy, when the median is a much better metric of that? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I mean, they don’t always use the mean, and they don’t always use an average as a proxy for normalcy. And sometimes the mean is a better choice than the median.

I don’t know what to do with overgeneralized, hyperbolic questions like this.