[Sniffnoy]

In case people aren't aware, the inequality of these specific four means is a special case of the more general power mean inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_mean#Generalized_m...

[abnry]

Which IIRC are all a consequence of Jensen's inequality.

[arjvik]

This I didn’t know!

[cubefox]

I think this is not quite right as stated there because the root mean square (quadratic mean) is always positive or 0 while the arithmetic mean can be negative, making it smaller. I guess the inequality only holds for positive numbers.

That's actually one argument for not calling the root mean square a "mean", because a mean should arguably have the property that it is always a number between the largest and smallest value. But the RMS of two negative numbers is positive. (On the other hand, the median would qualify as a mean in this sense, even though it is not a "power mean".)