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Calculating "percent increases" of the median age of a population doesn't make any sense at all.
by codeflo 12y ago
Calculating "percent increases" of the median age of a population doesn't make any sense at all.
- nextstep 12y agoThey likely did that to make the increase seem more significant. A "6 percent increase" to 44.4 years is an increase of only 2.5 years.
- Nacraile 12y agoWhy not? A relative difference in values is a relative difference in values. "The median of this distribution is a bit larger than the median of this other distribution" sure makes sense to me. Sure, comparing two histograms would be more informative, but also much more difficult to discuss concisely.