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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
Users can find out where prices stand in their local area relative to the national average; or look up localities nearby to better understand how prices vary in their region.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
Through two games, the Ragin’ Cajuns have held opponents to an average of 12 points per game — a mark that’s tied for the best in the Sun Belt.
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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