First: I wanna clarify this. I know that loads of people read like 100 books a year, or read all the time. I know these people exist. I’m asking about people that are like… average. An average american who just… reads. Doesn’t track everything or sets goals of like 100, or never stops reading… Anyway, I’ve been searching this up, and i find answers like 15-50, even 100. I find this highly unlikely, especially for average US citizens. Half the people i know don’t even pick up 5 books a year, let alone 15! I just don’t believe these stats. I read somewhere that people read 8 a month on average? That can’t be right for an average person. That’s like 2 books a week… I know people do read this much, but still… For an average person? So be real… how many books do people actually read a year?
Nah, median is usually lower than average, as the average number gets inflated by the top numbers.
Median is specifically the middle number in a range of numbers sorted from smallest to largest. Hard to have “between 0 and 1” show up in a list of numbers.
Technically if there were an even number of respondents then the middle is 2 numbers, and you average those together to find the median. So if by a stroke of luck the exact middle of the array contained a 0 and a 1, you’d get 0.5. Unlikely scenario though.
Numbers dont have to be integers. Who said that you can only anwsers in integers. If you read a book over 2 years it would be perfectly reasonable to anwser you read 0.5 books a year and then you can have a median that is not 0 or 1.