Re: I will post the reply here. When (If) it arrives. Archived Message
Posted by Shyaku on February 28, 2023, 10:16 pm, in reply to "I will post the reply here. When (If) it arrives."
An example of seven values: 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 400. Mean = (8+10+12+13+14+15+400) / 7 = 472/7 = 67.4 Median is just the middle value when they are all arranged in order: 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 15, 200 Median is the one in bold (13). it is the one right in the middle. Intuitively, most of the values actually do cluster around 13, except for that one cray outlier (400). So, intuitively, the median is better than the mean, because one extreme outlier cannot tilt it. BUT that outlier was able to really skew the mean up to an unrepresentative value of 67.4 So if most people say that around 20k Russians died, but Goebels says it was 400k, the BBC could say “Yeah, we took a mean value of what everyone says”. Bastards. Take good care, Very respecfully, Shyaku
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