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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 294756" data-attributes="member: 33"><p>I sometimes wish people wouldn't even use the term "average" without being more specific. When most people say "average" they actually mean the "mean average" i.e. the total of all the different parts divided by the total number of parts. However, the average can also be the median average (the middle value of all the parts are listed from smallest to the largest) or the mode or modal average (the most common number in a data set). </p><p></p><p>In your example, the mode (modal average) would be a more useful average for that scenario because as you stated, infant mortality would have skewed the mean average making it's value almost useless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 294756, member: 33"] I sometimes wish people wouldn't even use the term "average" without being more specific. When most people say "average" they actually mean the "mean average" i.e. the total of all the different parts divided by the total number of parts. However, the average can also be the median average (the middle value of all the parts are listed from smallest to the largest) or the mode or modal average (the most common number in a data set). In your example, the mode (modal average) would be a more useful average for that scenario because as you stated, infant mortality would have skewed the mean average making it's value almost useless. [/QUOTE]
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