Sandra

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There is a disclaimer on this site you quote to understand what mean average means before you try and understand what is being reported - Mean = average - you are quoting a site that gives the 'average' max temperature for the whole month - this means there ARE higher temperature recorded during the whole month.

Can you check your facts - next you will be telling me I do not get temps of 35+ here in Sydney inland can be much much higher

etlniwd

Mean is not the same as Average. And well done, a nominal value can be higher or lower than the average for the series (or even the mean for that matter).

That max data is not from the year 2000 by the way. It is the all-time records for that station.

Anyway I've had enough of this thread. Personally I love the Brisbane weather. I've never been anywhere with such a perfect climate. Some of you don't like it and that is your choice. But please don't distort the facts. If you think the facts point to unbearable weather for yourselves then so be it. Let people judge for themselves. If I'd paid any attention to some of the crap I read on here before I emigrated then I probably wouldn't have come.

Rosy

And there was me thinking you were edumacated Florida - disappointed to learn that you don`t know the difference between `mean`, `mode` and `median`!!!

Sandra

The "average" has no specific statistical meaning, as there are many forms of averaging such as the mean, median, mode, midrange, mean, among others.

Unfortunately the common acceptance in the general population is that "average" is another name for arithmetic mean (if you said arithmetic mean, most of the population would not know what you meant until you said "average"). You can argue otherwise, but conventional use is that and to mean otherwise invites only confusion with no advantage or useful resolution. Technically - avoid using the word "average" to avoid confusion and if someone says average in everyday life, assume they mean "arithmetic mean". Cheers:lecture:


So really it is not that clear unless stated each time the word is used - the site made me believe that for its purposes mean was meaning our normal understanding of 'average' - which is total of all items divided by the number of items.

Ceri

The point is not that peapole are slagging off the temp of Brisbane - personally I like the weather here, but you are trying to say that it does not get hotter than 29c. Which is a joke! You've only been in Brisbane what a couple of months (this summer wasn't it?) This summer has been quite cool compared to previous years here

Past summers we have had mid 30's and one year about two years ago I think it was it reached into the low 40's , it was a stonker of a summer - it was too hot to stay indoors - Chip shops and pubs etc down the front at Manly stayed open late for once as everyone flocked to be near the sea in the night - it was hot.

Look ask any Australian in Brisbane about it, ask your Australian work mates, neighbours etc. You are not willing to accept that it gets over 29 here - every year it will go into the 30's - 29c is a cool summer.

Geeze , and as Sandra says Sydney gets well into the 30's as well, as I do very well know - I used to live down in Newcastle, couple hours drive outside Sydney - and they also get 34c etc weather during the summer.

Nobody is trying to slag off the weather, but you must accept that we have above 29c ever summer. Are you really here in Brisbane or what? I find it hard to believe you are here when you say such a thing as it only reaches 29c


cheers

Wilf

This is also my understanding: mean, median, mode are all averages, but, as you say, when people say 'the average' they generally mean the mean. I know this because of a liking for maths. You like maths or something like it? Unusual for a woman to like maths (do not mean to be sexist, just a statistical truth?)

aussie bloke

Q. What is the difference between average, mean, median, and mode?
A.:
Mean is one kind of average. It is computed by summing the values and dividing by the number of values. Two other common forms of averages are the mode and the median. The mode is the frequently occurring value in a set. The median is the middle value of the set when they are ordered by rank.

Average is a synonym for arithmetic mean -- which is the value obtained by dividing the sum of a set of quantities by the number of quantities in the set.


now bugger off.

Sandra

Find me the statistics - probably a load of old bull like most figures open to alot of interpretation!!!! hee hee

Yes I love maths, I work in my dream job designing payroll systems - all the figures and details I have to work with here is brilliant.

Cheers

Wilf

I will show this to my wife who does not believe that anyone except the old git she is saddled with likes maths.

I am very glad to hear you have your dream job in Oz. Rarer than lady mathematicians?

etlniwd

When did I ever say that. Please, please could you people (or peapole) read the posts properly before you comment.

This is getting so tedious.

Badge

Nick I know where you are coming from. Talking about MEANS, not maximums.

Everybody is "right".

Technically, London probably is more humid than Brissy at times But in real terms, Brissy will of course seem hotter. esp to a Brit not acclimitised.

Give me 30 in Brissy over 25 in London any day. Thinking back to meterology there are all sorts of variables that make temperatures seem worse or better than they actually are - dewpoint index, etc

temp avs as published are so misleading - eg. the way London summer is 19 degrees - when often it CAN be 22 -25.

dotty

Mrs D mentioned my amusement at the famous argument Ceri and I had convincing people that Bris got hot in summer Just found this thread worth a giggle

Megalania

Must be very cool in SE Qld today:

dotty

Dont know about ISOsqwarks but its 37 on the thermometer:

ABCDiamond

Its only 33 on mine, but then i'm nearer the water