fastandcurious@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 months agoWhy do we use average instead of mode?message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWhy do we use average instead of mode?fastandcurious@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
Doesn’t using mode just make a lot more sense? You are much more likely to be the mode than you are likely to be average
minus-squareNibodhika@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoYes, it works best for small integer numbers, but it doesn’t provide any meaningful degree of confidence in the amount of kids, because 0,1,2,2,2,3,5 and 1,2,2,2,3,5,6 have the same mode but express very different groups.
Yes, it works best for small integer numbers, but it doesn’t provide any meaningful degree of confidence in the amount of kids, because 0,1,2,2,2,3,5 and 1,2,2,2,3,5,6 have the same mode but express very different groups.