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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
Statistically-speaking, 50% of ALL students must ALWAYS be below average
(and 50% above) - that's what 'average' means! -- Steve Juniper Berkeley, CA "You can't clean up the water 'til you get the hogs outta the creek." -- Jim Hightower -- "Zippy the Pinhead" wrote in message s.com... On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:41:31 GMT, "Buck" s c h w i n n _ f o r _ s a l e @ h o t m a i l . c o m wrote: Please don't quote statistics without a link to the source of said statistics. Otherwise it is just hearsay. I I heard that, despite years of effort and millions poured into our public school system, fully 50% of our students still have a less-than-average mastery of the science of statistics. |
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In rec.bicycles.misc Steve Juniper wrote:
: Statistically-speaking, 50% of ALL students must ALWAYS be below average : (and 50% above) - that's what 'average' means! actually that's the definition of median. average can loosely (but not properly) refer to mean, mode and median but properly average is just the summation of all points divided by their number which may or may not have 50% above and below. distributions are not always bell curves nor symmetric about their average. much more importantly, though, are you really that humour impaired? or is this some clever bait? i hate that. -- david reuteler |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 03:07:18 GMT, "Steve Juniper"
wrote: Statistically-speaking, 50% of ALL students must ALWAYS be below average (and 50% above) - that's what 'average' means! I don't think so. Approximately 50% must be below MEDIAN, but not average. I say "approximately" because there may be an odd number of students. I could have some or all of that wrong. -- Rick "No math genius" Onanian |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
Trudi Marrapodi wrote:
As long as we're going off on a tangent, I'd love to see people stop: --forgetting to turn them off or set them to vibrate at events like concerts The crassest thing I experienced was a woman who called somebody on her mobile during a piano recital. That's right, she was not called, she did the calling (and finally left when everybody else tried to kill her with looks). |
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