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Really? Why not 5% of Americans having the same average level of understanding and only 47.5% having a lower than average understanding? What assumptions are
by defrost 2mo ago
Really?
Why not 5% of Americans having the same average level of understanding and only 47.5% having a lower than average understanding?
What assumptions are you making, and why should they be true?
- sethammons 2mo agoIt is the same as wealth, or any dataset that has large data outliers on one side. Average and mean are the same: normal distribution. Average higher than mean: skewed by big outliers. Professional statistician affects the distribution of statistics knowledge like billionaires affect wealth distribution.
- defrost 2mo agoCongrats for having a shot, sadly that doesn't answer the questions posed in the slightest. Again, why does the GP assume that a full half are distinctly lower than "average understanding" ? Why the assumption that multiple numbers cannot share an average understanding?
- d1sxeyes 2mo agoIt was a joke, you are, of course, technically correct, there’s no requirement for the mean and median to be the same.
- defrost 2mo agoFair point, in my time zone it was late, I was crabby, and there was a surrounding context of "bad statistics" comments. That said, If the mean and median were the same your statement would still not be always true. For more than one reason.
- d1sxeyes 2mo agoNo harm done :) I’m interested, in what cases would it not be true if we assume “average” here to be “median”? I can only think of one: if we consider “understanding” to be discrete rather than continuous.