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I'm sure you are aware of this, but the average here seems missleading. The median household has never Torrented anything, therefore I think that the median would be more representative of the average user's habits.


yeah but by averaging the upload and averaging the download and just finding the ratio of the two he's not really substantially affecting his argument vs. using the median, right?


The median would be much lower than the average.


Maybe people should listen to statistician's main lament about number in the press :

Will you please start including the standard deviation ?

Would contain a lot more information than just having mean and median.




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