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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
GTthrowaway27 t1_jdcquu3 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
Of course. Mean and media won’t be exact unless it’s normal, bimodal, etc
But why act as though it’s going to be a meaningful difference?
The CEO is saying the average user is older than you would assume(teenagers/college). That’s it. Even if the median and mean are different by several years, that’s still generally going to be the same point.
It just seems the easy Reddit contrarian point of “um aktually median is better” (hence multiple comments saying the same thing) when they’re probably not that much different to begin with
GTthrowaway27 t1_jdcmi3k 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
But if there aren’t any 2 year old users then they’re excluded from the distribution anyways and both mean and median aren’t going to be impacted anyways
And if there are it’s not going to meaningfully affect the mean or median. Unless there’s more 2 year olds online than I expected…
GTthrowaway27 t1_jdcgvhy wrote
Reply to comment by Cranky0ldMan in The average TikTok user in the US is an adult 'well past college age,' CEO says by djJAMZ
Ok so for age…? Is there someone a million years old?
GTthrowaway27 t1_jdcgstf wrote
Reply to comment by coach_carter2 in The average TikTok user in the US is an adult 'well past college age,' CEO says by djJAMZ
Why? It’s not like there are big outliers with people living 10,000 years… can’t imagine it’s too different
GTthrowaway27 t1_jdcunwg 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
No but I’m saying in this example it doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t need to be precise