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wasoxygen  ·  2611 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Unlearning descriptive statistics

    For colors, months, countries, brand names and any other kind of data that is not quantitative and has no order to it, there is no median, and instead the most common values (including the mode) and least common values are a good way to indicate what's typical and what's not.

This is the first time I ever realized that mode is a French word.