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The size of the data sample is massively different. Only a few thousand people have earned any Olympic medals, so variance is expected to be higher than in the
by ihaveajob 4y ago
The size of the data sample is massively different. Only a few thousand people have earned any Olympic medals, so variance is expected to be higher than in the "years lived" metric, where we have literally billions of data points.
- masklinn 4y agoAnd Calment did not live twice as long as the runner-up, so the variance is indeed much lower in the "years lived" metric.
- tsimionescu 4y agoThe numbers are actually the other way around: there are far more Olympic medalists than there are people who (are believed to) have lived over 110.