Mixed unit morale

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:
Isn't that the exact definition of a weighted average?

No, it isn't. I think this may be a translation thing, but where I come from, an "average" of values is equal to the sum of all of the values, divided by the number of values, whereas a "weighted average" assigns an additional term, a "weight" to some, but not all, of the values, thus evaluating the values unequally for the purpose of some bias: For instance, a weighted average score of a single player's per-game kill counts, with more emphasis, more weight, given to his more recent games, because players tend to improve rather than regress, so more recent values are more representative than older values.

If, for instance, larger units had a greater impact on the squad's morale, this would be a weighted average. However, squad morale is simply the summation of the morale values of each individual unit independent of any other factors, divided by the number of units in the squad - it is an unweighted average.