149
Modal American
(i.imgur.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2024
149 points (92.1% liked)
Microblog Memes
5778 readers
924 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Erm, you actually can talk about the modal american in the same sense as any of those other measures of central tendency.
You don't talk about "the average american" with no context. You talk about the average american salary, the average american number of occupants of a household, and so on. Same for median.
The modal American salary would be the dollar figure which has the most americans earning that exact amount. It's fine.
Don't do continuous data.
Turn salary into a discrete variable. 0-20k, 20-40k, 40-60k, etc.
Modal salary, is the category most Americans fall into. And that is genuinely interesting to know.
Wouldn't that just be the modal salary?
I'm not sure I understand why you questioned it, but no.
He saids it is the American modal salary. The modal salary of all salaries is probably in Chinese Yuan, if that's what you're asking.
I didn't intend to mock the average American Joe, it's just that the question doesn't make sense and I'm curious of what they wanted to know, or if I'm the one missing something.
US citizens when you say that
"Wait... People don't use USD everywhere???"
(After working at a currency exchange counter outside the USA, I can confirm that it's not that unusual a reaction from US tourists...)
It's normally worded "the average American makes $x a year." Who is the average American? That should actually be worded "the average American salary is $x." That's actually what's being discussed. Assuming we continue the same trend in language, the OP is correct. You're also correct, but they're saying the same thing as you, just with the poor word choice from the other things.
It was a lot of words to say, yes, there are common things.