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It completely depends on what probability distribution you assume for the range. If it's a normal distribution with a high confidence interval from 25g to 90g,
by paulbaumgart 17y ago
It completely depends on what probability distribution you assume for the range. If it's a normal distribution with a high confidence interval from 25g to 90g, taking the average is reasonable. For the age of the Earth example, clearly the distribution is a bit more binary.
Maybe we're getting "hung up on the trivial minutia of an exact gram amount", though.
- graywh 17y agoI think the word you want is "bimodal".
- paulbaumgart 17y agoI guess you're technically correct, though the two peaks are almost narrow enough to be binary. :-)