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]

  • JoBo@feddit.uk
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    9 months ago

    such as the average net worth of the people in a country.

    And the mean average makes no sense here either, which is why incomes and wealth are almost always quoted as medians instead of means, unless they’re totals which is a roundabout way of reporting the mean (if you know the population baseline).

    The more unequal a country, the larger the difference between mean and median incomes.