▲ 124 ▼ It could be any one of us (startrek.website) submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/memes@sopuli.xyz 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] _danny@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is why "average" is a shitty way to measure what values are likely. If you have a thousand people who have a thousand dollars, and one person who has a billion dollars, the "average" person has a million dollars. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Kirca@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Nah "average" is fine, just using the wrong one here. Means are better for roughly bell shaped data sets. I'm the case above, looking at the median and mode would help understand the data better permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago i agree that the median should be used here. Maybe its an issue with translation but i was specifically tough that "median" and "average" are two very distinct things that should not be mixed up so the above doesn't happen. permalink fedilink source parent [–] _danny@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Averages are fine if you have a pretty clean dataset. But if you have significant outlier data, like most do, averages can be misleading. Mode and median are generally better ways to get look at a "central tendency" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kirca@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Nah "average" is fine, just using the wrong one here. Means are better for roughly bell shaped data sets. I'm the case above, looking at the median and mode would help understand the data better permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago i agree that the median should be used here. Maybe its an issue with translation but i was specifically tough that "median" and "average" are two very distinct things that should not be mixed up so the above doesn't happen. permalink fedilink source parent [–] _danny@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Averages are fine if you have a pretty clean dataset. But if you have significant outlier data, like most do, averages can be misleading. Mode and median are generally better ways to get look at a "central tendency" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago i agree that the median should be used here. Maybe its an issue with translation but i was specifically tough that "median" and "average" are two very distinct things that should not be mixed up so the above doesn't happen. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] _danny@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Averages are fine if you have a pretty clean dataset. But if you have significant outlier data, like most do, averages can be misleading. Mode and median are generally better ways to get look at a "central tendency" permalink fedilink source parent
