Averages

Mean, median, mode (modal means 'typical').

Usually it's the median or the mode that's more informative than the mean. To be intellectually honest (maybe related: Responsible Research), journalists could just adopt the practice of reporting all three, or at least never using the word "average" in favour of specifying mean, median or mode. Even better, show the shape of the distribution anytime an average is mentioned, so we're reassured it's not multimodal or something else weird. Actually upon reflection, I find it odd and disturbing that it isn't already the norm in newspapers & blog articles to show the distribution.

Q: Can mode be calculated for continuous data? How? Interpolate a kernel density curve and find its tallest peak?