In this paper we voice concerns about the uncritical manner in which the mean is often used as a summary statistic in psychological research. We identify a number of implicit assumptions underlying the use of the mean and argue that the fragility of these assumptions should be more carefully considered. We examine some of the ways in which the potential violation of these assumptions can lead u...

for all $a,b>0$, the following two optimal inequalities are presented: $h^{alpha}(a,b)l^{1-alpha}(a,b)geq m_{frac{1-4alpha}{3}}(a,b)$ for $alphain[frac{1}{4},1)$, and $ h^{alpha}(a,b)l^{1-alpha}(a,b)leq m_{frac{1-4alpha}{3}}(a,b)$ for $alphain(0,frac{3sqrt{5}-5}{40}]$. here, $h(a,b)$, $l(a,b)$, and $m_p(a,b)$ denote the harmonic, logarithmic, and power means of order $p$ of two positive numbers...

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