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[–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Right. The whole linguistic cluster fuck in my head is "mean and average are synonymous, and that measure is a descriptive statistic."

Accepting that average is synonymous with Descriptive statistic, not mean is troubling me.

My real fear is someone who calls a descriptive statistic an average is about to say to me that average and mean are synonyms as well, and that's when I'm ready to flip a table.

Your brain can't be healthy if you call average a descriptive statistic AND a mean.

Just learn the term descriptive statistic. Make your brain healthier. Communicate more efficiently with the world...

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