minor error—in the sentence “For self-published ebooks, it’s worse: the median number of sales is zero.”, it should say modal (most common number) instead of median (number in the middle of the distribution).
To state it more plainly, the claim “the median number of sales is zero” is equivalent to the claim “more than half of self-published ebooks sell zero copies”.
minor error—in the sentence “For self-published ebooks, it’s worse: the median number of sales is zero.”, it should say modal (most common number) instead of median (number in the middle of the distribution).
To state it more plainly, the claim “the median number of sales is zero” is equivalent to the claim “more than half of self-published ebooks sell zero copies”.
Which is also equivalent to saying “the modal is equivalent to 0” (since presumably you can’t have negative sales)
(Not disagreeing, just found it interesting that all of these turn out to mean the same in this context)
That’s not true? If there are five authors selling 0, 0, 1, 2, and 3 books each, then the mode is 0 and the median is 1.
Woops, “implies” is not equal to “is equivalent to”. My bad.
How do you know? Do you have a source for th claim that the median isn’t 0?