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> "I've become increasingly convinced that the idea of averaging is one of the biggest obstacles to understanding things... it contains the insidious trap of fe
by dleeftink 2y ago
> "I've become increasingly convinced that the idea of averaging is one of the biggest obstacles to understanding things... it contains the insidious trap of feeling/sounding "rigorous" and "quantitative" while making huge assumptions that are extremely inappropriate for most real world situations."
Semi-related, I found UniverseHacker's take[0] on the myth of averaging apt in regards to leaning to heavily on sample means. Moving beyond p-values and inter/intra group averages, there's fortunately a world of JASP[1].
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631448
[1]: https://jasp-stats.org/2023/05/30/jasp-0-17-2-blog/ https://jasp-stats.org/2023/05/30/jasp-0-17-2-blog/