Erm, you actually can talk about the modal american in the same sense as any of those other measures of central tendency.
You don't talk about "the average american" with no context. You talk about the average american salary, the average american number of occupants of a household, and so on. Same for median.
The modal American salary would be the dollar figure which has the most americans earning that exact amount. It's fine.
Don't do continuous data.
Turn salary into a discrete variable. 0-20k, 20-40k, 40-60k, etc.
Modal salary, is the category most Americans fall into. And that is genuinely interesting to know.
Wouldn't that just be the modal salary?
The modal American salary would be the dollar figure which has the most americans earning that exact amount. It's fine.
Wouldn't that just be the modal salary?
I'm not sure I understand why you questioned it, but no.
He saids it is the American modal salary. The modal salary of all salaries is probably in Chinese Yuan, if that's what you're asking.
It's normally worded "the average American makes $x a year." Who is the average American? That should actually be worded "the average American salary is $x." That's actually what's being discussed. Assuming we continue the same trend in language, the OP is correct. You're also correct, but they're saying the same thing as you, just with the poor word choice from the other things.
It was a lot of words to say, yes, there are common things.
Familiar with average(mean) and median, what's modal?
The mode of a set of numbers is the number that occurs the most times in the set.
For example, in [1,4,4,4,5,6,6,7], the mode is 4, because there are more 4s than there are any other number.
Like one set of quadruplets rules the world
The podcast Planet Money did it: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/755191639/episode-936-the-modal-american
