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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Average can mean so many things. A lot of people want it to be synonymous with mean as a measure of central tendency, but there's a reason data people use mean. It avoids folk definitions meaning typical or expected. In those senses it can also be synonymous with modal values or an area around the median etc. It's not a precise word.