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Re: Mathematical Literacy: Average (Mean) vs Median
by auros
I dunno, Will. I think it may be nearly as skewed, just in the opposite direction. I think the figures are roughly like: most of us die by 75-80, but a few live to 110. Your population, starting from 65, looks like a big cluster in the range of 5-15, but with a few outliers up in at 30-35. In percentage terms, this is going to create as big a skew as the life expectancy at birth, where the average is being dragged down (from the 70s) by the relatively small number of people who die at 15 or 25 or 35.
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