From: Johann Hibschman <johann@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T06:54:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23364] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Neely <joel.neely@fedex.com> writes:

    Joel> But, unfortunately, not true.  Half of all X are below the
    Joel> *median*, but not below the average unless there's a totally
    Joel> symmetric distribution, which rarely happens in nature.

Well, usually the 'average' can mean either the median, mean, or mode.
If you want 'mean', say 'mean'.  Otherwise, it's unspecified.  Or at
least that's how I was told it worked legally once.  IANAL.

--Johann