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For some things, you can't even sensibly measure the mean. For example, if you're measuring the mean response time for a service, a single failure/timeout makes
by rahimnathwani 5y ago
For some things, you can't even sensibly measure the mean. For example, if you're measuring the mean response time for a service, a single failure/timeout makes the mean response time infinite (because 100 years from now the response still hasn't been received).
"Why Averages Suck and Percentiles are Great":
https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/why-averages-suck-and-percentiles-are-great/ https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/why-averages-suck-and-pe...
- djk447 5y agototally. that blog was also one of the sources I mentioned in the post! Good stuff NB: Post author here.
- contravariant 5y agoIt's indeed always worth pointing that a mean may or may not exist. Same with variances/standard-deviation. The central limit theorem seems to have given people the slightly wrong idea that things will always average out eventually.
- maxnoe 5y agoCoughs Cauchy