[TowerTalk] My Yearly Mistake

Randy randy at verizon.net
Mon Aug 17 00:11:09 EDT 2015


I read somewhere that the average person has one testicle and one bosom.

Randy
KZ4RV

On 8/16/2015 10:17 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
> It's not a normal distribution and the variance is high, so neither the median or average tells you much about the population.
>
> Is Mugsy Bogues on that island?
>
> Al
> AB2ZY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Greenlee
> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 10:07 PM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] My Yearly Mistake
>
> On an Island populated by pygmies and NBA stars in equal numbers what good would an average height  be?
>
> On 8/16/2015 3:12 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
>>> Which is why knowing the distribution....
>> As not everything has a Gaussian (normal; bell) distribution. Much of what is taught in the typical statistics course for non-mathematicians focusses on normal distributions and their variants because they nicely represent so much of real life populations of measurements.
>>
>> W/R/T median and average, there is no "right" one.  It all depends on the nature of what it is you're measuring and what you want to know.  The median is useful for a lot of sociological data as the question often asked is "what is typical for a single data point".  For populations that are additive in nature (say, rainfall amounts), the average is probably more useful if for no other reason than you can multiply it by the number of samples and get the total for the dataset.
>>
>> Al
>> AB2ZY
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> TowerTalk mailing list
>> TowerTalk at contesting.com
>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TowerTalk mailing list
> TowerTalk at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TowerTalk mailing list
> TowerTalk at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
>


-- 
I am using the free version of SPAMfighter.
SPAMfighter has removed 2174 of my spam emails to date.
Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len

Do you have a slow PC? Try a Free scan 
http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen



More information about the TowerTalk mailing list