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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

What they mean is that all three are different kinds of averaging. This is correct, but I don't think people in general think 'median' when they hear 'average'