re: "Half the schools are below average" - not always true

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People who don't deal with statistics on a regular basis will not recall the differences between mean, median, and mode but they can all be correctly called an average.

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We should hold journalists - and NGT - to a higher standard.

Though - to be clear - I doubt the headline "Half the school are below average" is meant to imply something about the distribution - its actually meant to cause alarm - so it is stupid in that context - as a normal distribution is actually a good thing.