[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
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>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>> If you line everybody up from smartest to dumbest the man/women in the
>>> middle is "normal" or "average"!

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> What Richard was talking about is called median.

For many popular distributions, the mean and median are equal,
but not all. For most people, averave means mean.

Statisticians prefer the median, though, and in the case of median,
yes, it is really 50% that are below (and maybe some equal to) it.

-- glen