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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 24 January 2014 07:25:54PM 1 point [-]

Sometimes that communist thought got in the way for cases where the arithmetic mean was really appropriate.

What is an example where the mean is better than the median?

Comment author: ChristianKl 24 January 2014 07:31:48PM *  3 points [-]

I care more about my daily mean income in the last year than my median income over the last year.

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