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The graphs of Gem distribution and Vulnerability distribution are utter nonsense. You can't just measure your mean and standard deviation and expect a bell curv
by molf 12y ago
The graphs of Gem distribution and Vulnerability distribution are utter nonsense. You can't just measure your mean and standard deviation and expect a bell curve that fits those two parameters to correspond to your distribution. Especially if you cut off one of the tails.
- vasinov 12y agoDo you mind sharing how you would present this data?
- blt 12y agoA histogram.
- vasinov 12y agoWhy do you think it would be better/more meaningful?
- teraflop 12y agoThe current graph is actively misleading because it misrepresents the data as following a (truncated) normal distribution when that's very unlikely to be the case. A histogram would show the actual distribution. The kind of graph being used here -- a "best fit" bell curve based on the sample mean/s.d. -- can be useful when overlaid on a histogram, to illustrate how closely the data can be approximated by a normal distribution. Without that context, it's essentially meaningless.
- saraid216 12y agoStart with having a y-axis. That graph isn't a graph. It's just two numbers.