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On the bright side, the people you are not friends with have fewer friends than you do.
by woah 4y ago
On the bright side, the people you are not friends with have fewer friends than you do.
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- smeej 4y agoThis answer made me laugh so much harder than it should have. I'm thanking the art of selective statistics for this little highlight in my day!
- sitkack 4y agoHow to Lie with Statistics by Darrel Huff is really good satire https://archive.org/details/HowToLieWithStatistics_201608 https://archive.org/details/HowToLieWithStatistics_201608 From page 32 in the chapter on how to "choose the right average" > You and your partners have paid yourselves $11,000 each in salaries. You find there are profits for the year of $45,000 to be divided equally among you. How are you going to describe this? To make it easy to understand, you put it in the form of averages. Since all the employees are doing about the same kind of work for similar pay, it won’t make much difference whether you use a mean or a median. > This is what you come out with: > Average wage of employees $ 2,200 > Average salary and profit of owners .... 26,000 > That looks terrible, doesn’t it? Let’s try it another way > Take $30,000 of the profits and distribute it among the three partners as bonuses. And this time when you aver- age up the wages, include yourself and your partners. And be sure to use a mean.