Owen Duffy wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote in
:

Owen Duffy wrote:
. . .
After all, half the children in the schools are below average!

Not necessarily, it depends on the population distribution, doesn't it?
Exactly half would be less than the median, provided there were an odd
number of children.
. . .

And right you are -- I stand corrected.

Guess I was blinded by thinking of the statistician who drowned crossing
a creek which had an average depth of only three feet.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL