• TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Can’t speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.

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        10 hours ago

        Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.

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          7 minutes ago

          What they mean is that all three are different kinds of averaging. This is correct, but I don’t think people in general think ‘median’ when they hear ‘average’