← Back to context Comment by programmer_dude 4 years ago The median is also an average. 8 comments programmer_dude Reply bigmattystyles 4 years ago Only in a standard distribution right? programmer_dude 4 years ago No, the word average is a place holder for measures of central tendencies (like mean, median and mode). nostromo95 4 years ago Any symmetrical distribution will have the mean equal the median. ackfoobar 4 years ago Not exactly. This pathological distribution has no mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution 1 reply → bigmattystyles 4 years ago But that’s the definition of a standard distribution? Intelligence is not, at least I think. 2 replies →
bigmattystyles 4 years ago Only in a standard distribution right? programmer_dude 4 years ago No, the word average is a place holder for measures of central tendencies (like mean, median and mode). nostromo95 4 years ago Any symmetrical distribution will have the mean equal the median. ackfoobar 4 years ago Not exactly. This pathological distribution has no mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution 1 reply → bigmattystyles 4 years ago But that’s the definition of a standard distribution? Intelligence is not, at least I think. 2 replies →
programmer_dude 4 years ago No, the word average is a place holder for measures of central tendencies (like mean, median and mode).
nostromo95 4 years ago Any symmetrical distribution will have the mean equal the median. ackfoobar 4 years ago Not exactly. This pathological distribution has no mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution 1 reply → bigmattystyles 4 years ago But that’s the definition of a standard distribution? Intelligence is not, at least I think. 2 replies →
ackfoobar 4 years ago Not exactly. This pathological distribution has no mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution 1 reply →
bigmattystyles 4 years ago But that’s the definition of a standard distribution? Intelligence is not, at least I think. 2 replies →
Only in a standard distribution right?
No, the word average is a place holder for measures of central tendencies (like mean, median and mode).
Any symmetrical distribution will have the mean equal the median.
Not exactly. This pathological distribution has no mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution
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But that’s the definition of a standard distribution? Intelligence is not, at least I think.
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