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> but we should go by averages, not outliers.

Or to be a little pedantic, by mean, not average. When Bill Gates walks into a dive bar the "average person" is temporarily is a billionaire.



Median?


That was my intent, but looking back on that post I really mangled the text when editing it. (Just look at that "is temporarily is".)

Well, too late to fix it now, I suppose it's a lesson on the perils of inadequate sleep and the risks of video-conference calls with people in wildly dissimilar timezones.


The average and the mean are the same thing.


Correct, "average" usually implies "arithmetic mean". I just accidentally the words before coffee enough sleep with meeting.

But I'm perfectly fine now, ossifer.


No worries, I know I could easily make the same mistake.




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