• force@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Idk man looking up a definition for “average” is like

    1. a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.

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    1. Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. [from c. 1735]

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    1 a : a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values

    doesn’t look like that dude’s using the word “wrong” to me, a lotta people and mathematicians definitely recall using “average” meaning median