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Originally posted by Dadd
Darkus?



mafia forum has officially jumped the shark

Originally posted by stromstarhammer
I taught 6th graders today that in the presence of an outlier, median is the better measure, because that one guy who couldn't get it off would increase the "average" duration per dude. Except I used "pieces of bacon you ate this morning that you did not share with your teacher" as data because today was all-academic breakfast.

humble request:
by the exact same token, can you please teach your students that standard deviation is overly sensitive to large outliers and that most often (especially in this digital age) they should be using mean deviation instead?

here's a decent writeup -- https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25401

Originally posted by Darren Sanders
mafia forum has officially jumped the shark

This is what happens when you leave food out

Originally posted by Darren Sanders
mafia forum has officially jumped the shark

you do realize who is mostly to blame, right?

Originally posted by Catullus16
Originally posted by stromstarhammer

I taught 6th graders today that in the presence of an outlier, median is the better measure, because that one guy who couldn't get it off would increase the "average" duration per dude. Except I used "pieces of bacon you ate this morning that you did not share with your teacher" as data because today was all-academic breakfast.

humble request:
by the exact same token, can you please teach your students that standard deviation is overly sensitive to large outliers and that most often (especially in this digital age) they should be using mean deviation instead?

here's a decent writeup -- https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25401

Get more data and all your problems go away.

MAD is part of 6th grade curriculum.
Wrong age group IMO, more appropriate for 8th or 12th, nonetheless, USA USA

Originally posted by Catullus16
you do realize who is mostly to blame, right?

?????

Originally posted by spindoctor02
Get more data and all your problems go away.



wrong.

Originally posted by Darren Sanders
?????

you played a rather large role

Originally posted by Catullus16
Originally posted by spindoctor02

Get more data and all your problems go away.



wrong.

Well, assuming you have a normal distribution to begin with, more data will depress the deviation of any one outlier term.

But there I go, making assumptions...

Originally posted by Catullus16
you played a rather large role

#SDM3

Originally posted by spindoctor02
Well, assuming you have a normal distribution to begin with, more data will depress the deviation of any one outlier term.

But there I go, making assumptions...

yes, and a rather large one at that. a very curious move from someone who was too nit-picky to answer my bob question earlier. pick a lane.

also, had you read what you replied to, you would realize that speaking of "the deviation" requires some clarification. read the article i linked to learn more.

that said, ayone who has sat through the first lecture of an intro to stats class would agree that increasing sample size tends to decrease sample error. but that doesn't address what you replied to and it certainly doesn't solve 'all problems' in actual practice.

Originally posted by stromstarhammer
MAD is part of 6th grade curriculum.
Wrong age group IMO, more appropriate for 8th or 12th, nonetheless, USA USA

interesting

lots of journalists and scientists out there who should go back to 6th grade then

Originally posted by Darkus Black
Some in real life compensations going on in this thread. Sorry for your lives being so shitty that you have to try and feel clever on the internets.

Your mom ran out of spit, so we had to do something else.