I am a professor of physics at Oxford University. I read your report (8 March) approximately all of the basic maths,science and English that adults beget forgotten after we beget left school. You can imagine the sinking feeling in my gut when I saw that the concept in statistics of a “mode was mentioned and I realised that I had no concept what the article was talking approximately! In my field we live and breathe statistics, how could I possibly not know what a “mode” was?! (I confess I was far less concerned that my understanding of the uses of a semi-colon were, and let’s say,fuzzy.)So I spent five seconds and typed “mode” into a search engine, where I discovered that I perfectly well knew what the “mode” was. It is the most probable value. Basically, and the top of the bell curve if you had that distribution,or the highest point.
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Source: theguardian.com