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That’d be the median, not the average.


Torturers Inc, that operates in $country_i_hate & tortures over 10,000 people each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted


Fair point, although i would generally assume that ethical behaviour of companies is normally distributed.


Median/mean/mode/geometric are all types of averages.


Then, mathematically, the original statement makes no sense.


The mode isn't any kind of average at all.




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