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Dropping outliers can be done when outliers cloud the analysis, but doing this in an analysis of startups is inane since startup investors' entire goal is to fi
by jamiequint 11y ago
Dropping outliers can be done when outliers cloud the analysis, but doing this in an analysis of startups is inane since startup investors' entire goal is to find outliers.
- slugg 11y agoDon't just throw around some Peter Thiel shit like it justifies any argument you want it to.
- angelbob 11y agoPossible. In this case, we're not looking for outliers or measuring based on financial success, but trying to tell if the VC is systematically biased anti-woman. It's not clear that dropping outliers is a bad idea there. It's also not clear it's a good idea, granted.
- vasilipupkin 11y agoWell, if you are trying to measure whether men founders or women founders you have funded on average make more, then you would have to include Uber. The real issue with the analysis is that results are unlikely to be statistically significant due to small samples and high variance, which means they are useless.
- vasilipupkin 11y agoWell, if you are trying to measure whether men founders or women founders you have funded on average make more, then you would have to include Uber. The real issue with the analysis is that results are unlikely to be statistically significant due to small samples and high variance, which means they are useless.