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Politicometric Mean

August 6, 2024Original blog post

The 'Politicometric Mean', defined and illustrated.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-08-06-which-mean-do-you-mean--politicometric-mean/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Politicometric Mean: a fancy way of saying "median." [Signs: "EAT THE RICH" · "LET THE RICH EAT US"; in the middle, the MEAN VOTER: "anyone know where I can get a soft pretzel?"]

Topics
Statistics › MedianStatistics › Measures of Center
Level
Middle SchoolHigh SchoolAP StatisticsCollege
Themes
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