Averages are rarely a statistically significant factor in science.
You would think that someone writing about science would use mean or median 20th century temperature.
But maybe those figures did not support his argument.
But on another note I suppose he would want to totally ignore 18th century which quite cold.
The unnamed author notes that Cruz cherry picks a year well the author cherry picks a century.
You would think that someone writing about science would use mean or median 20th century temperature.
Ummm, "mean" and "average" are the same thing. :-)
But, otherwise I agree with you -- I just posted something similar.
But on another note I suppose he would want to totally ignore 18th century which quite cold.
Using the 18th century data (assuming we could get accurate data) would lower both the mean and the median. But, if you were to go all the way back to when Greenland was green (and the climate was much warmer), that might raise them.
Mean is the same as average. Your post confuses me.