Assuming that there’s only a set number of hours of work needed, asking for more hours would mean someone else getting less hours and hence less money. Isn’t that also selfish?
Mean is what’s commonly called the average, median is the one that comes in the middle if you rank the samples, and mode is the value that occurs most frequently. So the median is the one you’re thinking of that splits the samples in half, though it’s a bit vague because you have a portion of them that equal the median value and aren’t above or below it.
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