And we'll start by thinking of the idea of average. Average. And in everyday terminology, average has a very particular meaning. As we'll see, when many people talk about average, they're talking about the arithmetic mean, which we'll see shortly. But in statistics, average means something more general. It really means give me a typical, give me a typical, or give me a middle, give me a middle number. Or, and these are ors, and really, it's an attempt to find a measure of central tendency.