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Some money yes, but an average salary should work for all of them, no?

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“Average” is a vague definition

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neither vague nor a definition

average is the sum of a list of values divided by the size of the list.

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Well, if you look at the average salary across the whole world, an overwhelming majority of people doesn’t make enough money to survive, so there’s that

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No. If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be right.

Average

noun

  1. a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.

The term average, inherently refers to at least three different ways to calculate the central value in a data set. What you’re talking about is mean, but it can also mean mode, or median, and there are other, even, more complicated calculations than those depending on your context.

So yes, average, is an inherently vague and hard to define term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average

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I was under the impression mean and average were used interchangeably, but I’m not a native speaker.

What I meant was mean salary indeed. But median would probably be more adequate.

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ooh look at you, so smart!

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Not in America

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For what of the list?

It also depends on the definition of each, but I mean in a basic sense.

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