In mathematics and statistics, the term arithmetic mean is preferred over simply mean because it helps to differentiate between other means such as geometric and harmonic mean. Statistical mean is the most common term for calculating the mean of a statistical distribution.
There were, in my opinion, two main reasons for this: 1  I believe that Dr. King believed that nonviolence was a more moral strategy than one that included violence. 2  King also believed that nonviolence was a more effective way to get people on the side of the protestors.
In Slate, Dahlia Lithwick takes on the distinction between doctors who refuse to participate in executions and pharmacists who refuse to prescribe emergency contraception.Physicians and pharmacists who refuse to participate in what they deem killing have more in common than many of us might like to admit.