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smallnamespace on Aug 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Great Listeners Actually Do

'Most people' -> mode

'Average' -> Arithmetic mean

Mode < Mean in this case because the distribution is skewed to the left

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness#Introduction

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