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ginko
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That’d be the median, not the average.
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AceJohnny2
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Torturers Inc, that operates in
$country_i_hate
& tortures over 10,000 people each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
bawolff
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Fair point, although i would generally assume that ethical behaviour of companies is normally distributed.
lotsofpulp
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Median/mean/mode/geometric are all types of averages.
yunnpp
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Then, mathematically, the original statement makes no sense.
eru
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The mode isn't any kind of average at all.
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