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Not a bad idea, but in my line of work, tools like statsite calculate the summary stats and throw the data away because aint nobody got storage for that. From t
by jldugger 8y ago
Not a bad idea, but in my line of work, tools like statsite calculate the summary stats and throw the data away because aint nobody got storage for that. From this viewpoint, it's still important to teach engineers the mean is heavily influenced by outliers. If they're looking to know what the 'average' is, a median is often better, and if they want to know how broad the distribution is, p95/p99 is a good slice into the long tail.