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Topic	The average US adult only takes 5000 steps each day
kangolcone 07/19/21 9:08:39 AM #57:	Clench281 posted... 1. Average in this sense is a single number that reflects an amount of steps taken by a "typical American" and not "the arithmetic mean number of steps taken by individuals in our measured population." Note that the title describes the American as average, not their number of steps. 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 lazy scientific or statistical conversation) can refer to mean, median, or 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." Lmfao. As if you could ever determine a mode for such a statistic or that it would even be reliable. Good to see more than a decade on this board and you still take things way too seriously. --- Annoy a Conservative, punch a Nazi. <cite>kangolcone posted [p:956238576] in The averag... [t:79570444]...</cite> <quote>Clench281 posted... </cite> <quote>1. Average in this sense is a single number that reflects an amount of steps taken by a "typical American" and not "the arithmetic mean number of steps taken by individuals in our measured population." Note that the title describes the American as average, not their number of steps. 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 lazy scientific or statistical conversation) can refer to mean, median, or 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."</quote> Lmfao. As if you could ever determine a mode for such a statistic or that it would even be reliable. Good to see more than a decade on this board and you still take things way too seriously. --- Annoy a Conservative, punch a Nazi.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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