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Recent Examples of arithmetic meanHow To Apply The Metrics Each axis is scored on a 1-10 scale, and the composite score is the arithmetic mean.—Ranjeet Mudholkar, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025 To find the median of an even number of values, take the middle two and then find the pair's arithmetic mean of those two.—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
Simply a return to league average would’ve been a significant jump for Springer.
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Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
That increase was fueled largely by national revenue — television, licensing and sponsorship proceeds shared equally among the 32 franchises — which rose to an average of $433 million per team from $403 million the previous season, according to league executives.
What was once perceived as a temporary fix may, however, prove to be the golden mean.
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Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
21 June 2025
Embodied is working to achieve a kind of anthropomorphic golden mean with its bot: not so mechanical that children lose interest but not realistic enough for kids to humanize it.
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