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For most questions I think average would be more useful. For the question of whether people upvote pg thoughtlessly or not, median is useful. If more than hal
by brlewis 19y ago
For most questions I think average would be more useful. For the question of whether people upvote pg thoughtlessly or not, median is useful. If more than half of pg's comments end up with a score of 4 or less, then we can conclude that his comments that end up with 50 or more points are a select subset.
- xenoterracide 19y agoI think he would get more if our usernames stood out more. but I can accept that I am being grossly inaccurate and exaggerating.
- kashif 19y agoSubmission scores might be a statistically different distribution then comment scores. Also while median is better than mean, it may or may not be better than mode - difficult to tell without looking at the shape of the distribution.