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GTthrowaway27 t1_jdcr6ev wrote

Reply to comment by newjackcity0987 in The average TikTok user in the US is an adult 'well past college age,' CEO says by djJAMZ

Just a pet peeve that Reddit assumes median is always a better representation when we don’t have the actual distribution

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newjackcity0987 t1_jdcrwvf wrote

In this case, do you assume the mean is a better representative than median (without distribution data)?

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GTthrowaway27 t1_jdcunwg wrote

No but I’m saying in this example it doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t need to be precise

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SomethingMatter t1_jdekli9 wrote

The skew of the data matters a lot. The tail on the upper end extends much further than the tail on the lower end which means that the data will more than likely skew right. That would make the median lower than the mean. How much lower depends on the skew of the data but there is a huge difference between a median of 16 and an mean of 25 compared to a median of 22 and a mean of 25.

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