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Modal American (i.imgur.com)
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[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Wouldn't that just be the modal salary?

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 9 points 9 months ago

The modal American salary would be the dollar figure which has the most americans earning that exact amount. It's fine.

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.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

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...)

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It was a lot of words to say, yes, there are common things.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Familiar with average(mean) and median, what's modal?

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

The mode of a set of numbers is the number that occurs the most times in the set.

For example, in [1,4,4,4,5,6,6,7], the mode is 4, because there are more 4s than there are any other number.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Like one set of quadruplets rules the world

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 months ago

The podcast Planet Money did it: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/755191639/episode-936-the-modal-american

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