Domain.com.au is broadcasting a TV ad demonstrating that they don't know the difference between the MEDIAN and the MEAN

GnarlyKnuckles on 14/03/2024 - 05:54

Does this annoy anyone else out there?

In my opinion it's ludicrous that a commercial company is constantly broadcasting a false statistical definition on national TV in Australia.

Imagine being a company attempting to encourage peeps to trust you with the buying/selling of your HOUSE, while simultaneously having an ad that runs hundreds of times a day on national TV indicating that your company does not understand the difference between simple statistical terms?!?

LOL.

I would never, ever trust a mob with anything to do with real-estate, if they mixed up the definitions of 'mean' and 'median', and broadcast their error for months (almost a year now?) on national TV ads. It's a joke, surely …

As peeps were fond of saying in the 1980s … "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!"

Every time any kid hears this dodgy ad that is broadcast many times every day by 'Domain.com', that kid is receiving a FALSE/WRONG/REVERSE maths lesson. As if things were not bad enough already in this respect for Australian kids, now we have a company ACTIVELY SABOTAGING our kids' maths' learning, on national TV, multiple times a day.

This is woeful, and the Australian Federal Government should issue these clowns with an order to desist. These ads should be taken off air immediately. OR, correct audio could be overdubbed that actually states ACCURATELY what a MEDIAN house price refers to. It's hardly rocket science.

I wonder how many millions of Australians who are aware of basic maths/stats/bussiness/real-estate ETC. definitions/concepts have now totally lost all respect for this company, because of this long-running ad …

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Comments

  • AustriaBargain on 14/03/2024 - 06:21
    +20

    For those of us who don't watch commercial TV, what did the ad say?

  • MS Paint on 14/03/2024 - 06:28
    +7

    Unless the ad is on tik tok children/teenagers are not seeing this deprecating ad you speak of.

    Rose Byrne is awesome and the ad is having a dig at the couples silliness. I'm guessing the mathematical error was included on purpose.

    • animasoIa on 14/03/2024 - 09:31
      +2

      Yeah, understood it as a part of the joke.

  • HardQuiz on 14/03/2024 - 06:36
    +3

    I assume you mean domain.com.au

    • Switchblade88 on 14/03/2024 - 11:17
      +15

      No, he medians domain.com.au

  • SBOB on 14/03/2024 - 06:59
    +5

    Of all the "won't someone think of the children" stances I've ever heard, this is by far the weakest.

    To put it in statistical terms you so deeply care about, if I had to rank all of the things within society that I think are detrimental to kids development, education, or future potential, this would definitely be more than 3 standard deviations to the left of the mean :)

    • MS Paint on 14/03/2024 - 07:37
      +10

      Post history suggests OP is more than 3 standard deviations to the right of mean.

  • Sal in SA on 14/03/2024 - 07:19
    +5

    So only the 20 ppl or so in the entire country that watch FTA will see it…

  • Baysew on 14/03/2024 - 09:35
    +4

    Kids don't watch TV and have little hope of buying a house.

  • FezMonkey on 14/03/2024 - 10:00
    +2

    I said the same thing but surely it's a joke. I think it doesn't quite land because it's not obvious that Domain is in on it.

    If they had the kid correct Rose Byrne afterwards it would have had a better punchline.

  • joka on 14/03/2024 - 10:00

    Chill, it is meant to be a light-hearted add. If it was meant to be a serious add, they would have used Liam Neeson.

    • c64 on 14/03/2024 - 11:27
      +2

      *ad

  • Sammy2000 on 14/03/2024 - 10:12
    +1

    I have not seen the advertisement but if it is that bad then report it:
    https://www.acma.gov.au/rules-what-you-see-or-hear-tv-or-rad…

    • Baysew on 14/03/2024 - 12:47
      +1

      Which will be filed under "Boomer Whinges With No Sense of Humour"

      • GnarlyKnuckles on 14/03/2024 - 14:05
        -3

        *Whingers.

        Anyways, there seems to be two main 'opinions' (and I use that term generously) on this:

        1. Maybe it's meant to be a joke … (it's clearly not, if you watch/listen to the ad)

        2. Who cares? (clearly no one anymore, sadly)

        My god, we are truly moving rapidly towards the version of 'the future' depicted in the movie 'Idiocracy'.

  • Rob-4x4 on 14/03/2024 - 11:27

    Just reflects the education of the sales and marketing people who put the campaign, they are so poorly educated they do not understand the different between mean and medium averages.

    It is very significant as for things like the average Australian income there is a very large difference between the mean and medium value

    For example the median salary in Australia in 2023 is around 67,600 AUD per annum while the mean salary is around 98000 per annum (Source ABS). That is a big difference in buying power,

    • Malik Nasser on 14/03/2024 - 18:52
      +1

      Just reflects the education of
      between mean and medium averages
      between the mean and medium value
      the median salary in

      1 out of 3 is not bad, considering our education system here in Australia…
      Median vs Medium

  • binscab on 14/03/2024 - 11:35

    even the journos and politicians conflate revenue and profit

  • KaTst3R on 14/03/2024 - 12:50
    +1

    What does MEDIAN MEAN?

  • mboy on 14/03/2024 - 14:04
    +4

    On the topic, OP have you seen that old Telstra commercial where the father tells his son that the Great Wall of China was built to keep rabbits out?

    I can't believe Telstra didn't even do any research, because that isn't even the reason the Great Wall of China was built. The purpose of the commercial was to illustrate that mistakes like that could be avoided by availing Telstra of their services, and yet Telstra go and make that mistake themselves - how ironic.

    Similarly to the points you've raised about the Domain ad, let us take a moment to think of the children who were immediately and inextricably rendered morons upon internalising the false information in the Telstra commercial.

  • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 14/03/2024 - 16:42
    +1

    Old man yells at cloud

    • GnarlyKnuckles on 14/03/2024 - 19:58
      -1

      Lol, that's funny Type-16 :)

      I guess it got so annoying because the ad is on so bloody often. The first time I heard it I just chuckled. It was only after about the 100th time (which was only a few days later), that it really started to annoy me. Now that I've heard it about a million times, it makes me want to shoot the TV, 'Elvis style'. It's on so often that I believe 'Domain' could have genuinely taught a large proportion of the population the definition of the median. Instead, they are 'drilling' something totally wrong into that same proportion of the population's heads.

  • Malik Nasser on 14/03/2024 - 18:56
    +1

    If this gets you hot under the collar, then I would suggest staying away from the media / news, where information accuracy is optional.
    A lot of things are contextual and nuanced, which seems to pass right over the heads of those reporting on it.

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