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I can understand saying a statistic might be partly confounded by additional factors. I can't understand calling it meaningless. Just that it might not mean exa
by benched 13y ago
I can understand saying a statistic might be partly confounded by additional factors. I can't understand calling it meaningless. Just that it might not mean exactly what's implied. The stat itself is pretty hard to miss.
- graeme 13y agoAs another commenter noted, the smaller the group, the higher the variance. Extreme cases due to variance actually are quite meaningless. I am not claiming that this particular statistic is meaningless. Just that it isn't necessarily meaningful, either.