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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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[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I think many times it is presumed that things are of a normal distribution thus median and average are interchangeable.