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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh crap. Translating average to my language yields the same word as mean. But you're right.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

Not a native English speaker here. Today I learned, too. Thank you.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

What they mean is that all three are different kinds of averaging. This is correct, but I don't think people in general think 'median' when they hear 'average'