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Posted by Jack May on October 31, 2007, 2:03 pm
> On 30 Oct 2007, george conklin wrote
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>>
>> Well, in the USA the average commute time is about 20
>> minutes, more or less.
>
> If someone commutes for 5 minutes and someone else does 35, they're
> averaging 20 minutes.
>
> The mode is the significant figure; the mean is...meaningless.
The graph of the commute times for different parts of the world are in
Figure 1 of:
http://phe.rockefeller.edu/TIP_transport/transport.pdf
You decide what is typical. It looks like about an hour per day of travel
is typical for the world.
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