The mean is almost always the most useful single descriptive statistic in engineering and management. There's a weird meme that it's only useful for normal data, which is super misguided. 1/
It's concise! temperatures vary by time, location, altitude, volume and all sorts of things, right down to the brownian scale. It would be incomprehensible and impractical to describe the momentum of every molecule.
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Indeed. I believe time component is the least suited to a single descriptive metric like mean. For everything else, I agree, it does the job.
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