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It should be patently obvious that 95% of people are not "above average", and that when considering two independent attributes, it is a statistical impossibilit
by sliverstorm 13y ago
It should be patently obvious that 95% of people are not "above average", and that when considering two independent attributes, it is a statistical impossibility that 95% of people are above average in one of the two.
- marshray 13y agoA class of twenty students is given a test. One student scores 90 and the other nineteen score 100. 95% of the class scores "above average".
- profd43 13y agoNot sure why you're downvoted when you're completely correct. Kind of odd we have supposedly technical people on here who confuse median and mean.
- marshray 13y agoI had another comment today to attract a few surprising downvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7535793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7535793 Perhaps everyone's still a bit grouchy over the Mozilla thing? :-(
- profd43 13y agoHoly math fail batman! You are completely wrong. Learn to distinguish between mean and median before you try to lecture us on 6th grade math.