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]
When you have a qualitative measure on an axis mode can get really weird. Let’s say we have a dance class with 3 13 year olds, 4 14 yos, 5 15 yos, 4 16 yos, 5 17 yos, 3 18 yos, and a group of six retirees that signed up as a lark for someone’s birthday and are all 72 years old.
That dance class is mostly composed of teenagers but the mode is 72 year olds. I think mode is a terrible measure but it’s very close to what we’d like to phrase as “mostly” the issue is that it’s very strict about bucket boundaries while we humans like to group things arbitrarily.
This sample also shows why the median is often more representative than the mean.