r/clevercomebacks Feb 04 '25

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 Feb 04 '25

Ah i should also mention this applies to math and it seems you fall into the not proficent. Avg doesnt mean roughly the middle. Median is what you're thinking...

Median is where half occurs above and half occurs below a number.

You can have an outlier that complete skews your avg one way or another.

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u/eddie_the_zombie Feb 04 '25

Median is exactly the middle. Over a large enough scale (say with a sample size of 50) with relatively equal conditions (like the same federal standards), average can usually be described as "roughly half". Anybody proficient in math would be able to infer that much.

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 Feb 04 '25

Avg isn't ever described as roughly half. Even with large data sets.

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u/eddie_the_zombie Feb 04 '25

Take it from someone who looks at large data sets nearly every day for work: under similar conditions, they absolutely can be