Doesn’t using mode just make a lot more sense? You are much more likely to be the mode than you are likely to be average in the mean class
[Originally said average in the title, fixed thanks to jbrains]
Doesn’t using mode just make a lot more sense? You are much more likely to be the mode than you are likely to be average in the mean class
[Originally said average in the title, fixed thanks to jbrains]
Mean is the default “average” because it’s easy to calculate and were taught it first in school. Like, years before median or mode. That’s it, that’s the whole reason.
That makes perfect sense to me. I should have known it was that boring.
Poor old Chebychev is not getting much love here is he.
I guess people might think he was a fan of inequality. (sorry - maths joke, at least I didn’t do the one about the LOL numbers).
I didn’t get that far in probability and statistics. I know of his polynomials, but that was a long time ago.