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| Topic | The average US adult only takes 5000 steps each day |
| Clench281 07/19/21 9:00:51 AM #56: | kangolcone posted... Average in this context isnt a very useful tool. I would be more interested in the median and the mode. 1. Average in this sense is a single number that reflects an amount of steps taken by an "average American" and not "the arithmetic mean number of steps taken by individuals in our measured population." The models take into account parameters such as age, sex, ethnicity, social class etc. and uses those variables to extrapolate the measured population (which is not composed identically to the US population as a whole) to apply to the entire US population. 2. "Average" needn't only refer to arithmetic mean. Average is just shorthand for a single measure of central tendency, which (in scientific or statistical conversation) can refer to mean, median, or commonly mode. When I'm editing manuscripts, I would replace "average" with "mean" if that's what the authors actually intended to say, and only leave "average" if they mean "typical." --- Take me for what I am -- who I was meant to be. And if you give a damn, take me baby, or leave me. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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