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That’s exactly it. The average gets pulled out of proportion by outliers, so there’s a good chance that far more than 50% of US American man can ride it.
by Semaphor 4y ago
That’s exactly it. The average gets pulled out of proportion by outliers, so there’s a good chance that far more than 50% of US American man can ride it.
- benatkin 4y agoIt isn't getting skewed, it is simply being different than the median. Very common in statistics.
- Semaphor 4y agoWhat?
- benatkin 4y agoExpecting a gaussian distribution everywhere. For instance in dead pixels in monitors. Say that most have no dead pixels but there are 1000 with one dead pixel. Should there be 1000 with an extra pixel?
- Semaphor 4y agoI don’t understand what you are saying. The article says 50% of men. I said with the average, there is no need for it to be 50%, with the median there would be. I have no idea how what you say is related to that.
- benatkin 4y ago> The average gets pulled out of proportion by outliers This places a value judgment on the mean not being close to the median
- Semaphor 4y agoNo, it simply says there’s a chance. That is what this whole subthread was about, and you argued against it for some inexplicable reason. But now I see you even edited your original comment to say you misunderstood, so I’m thinking you are just arguing for the sake of it.