The median isn’t the message
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The median isn't the message.
Consider the standard example of stretching the truth with numbers a case quite relevant to my story. Statistics recognizes different measures of an "average," or central tendency. The mean is our usual concept of an overall average add up the items and divide them by the number of sharers (100 candy bars collected for five kids next Halloween will yield 20 for each in a just world). The median...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceylon Medical Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2386-1274,0009-0875
DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v49i4.1930