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[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

That's not necessarily true. If 100 people take a test and 99 of them score 100 but one person gets a 0, the average score is 99. But 99 people scored 100, so 99 people are above average, and only 1 is below average.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

When we're talking "half the people" that means median not mean.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 5 months ago

Technically correct is best correct.

[-] murtaza64@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

that generally doesn't happen in the real world though, most of the time the mean and median are close-ish at least

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Well of course it's not gonna be true when you make up an incredibly unlikely contrived scenario that doesn't follow anything close to a normal distribution

[-] LotrOrc@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

99 of them would then be average and the one person would be below average

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The average is 99.

99 people scored 100. They're above average.

this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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