The median is a statistical fact that can be used by humans in both good and bad ways. Lots of data can be made to look lots of different ways in the hands of different people.
That’s why teaching critical thinking (not just the skills but the importance and value) is paramount. People need to understand what they’re looking at. Because sometimes you want the mean, other times you want the median, and if you can’t even understand when you might want one or the other or both for different reasons then you can be led around by the nose with either.
That’s because there’s always someone bringing politics into casual conversations and it’s tiresome. Yes the world is fucked, most of us here are well aware. Let us enjoy some escapism every now and then, maybe.
Seeing your relatively high involvement in defending a simple “joke”, I’d say you’re more triggered than the ones down voting, but whatever, you do you.
I don’t really care, I laughed at the joke. I only find it sad we can’t shitpost in a shitposting community anymore without dumb fucks downvoting it.
In case you’re still stuck on Reddit mechanisms, downvotes are not a disagree button. It should be reserved for out of place comments that do not further the discussion.
Nah, it’s the perfect example of why the median is a pathetic excuse of a statistical tool that is only used by those that wish to opress minorities
the median person uses 0mg of meth a day, the mean person uses about 1.7mg per day.
medians supress minorities
The median is a statistical fact that can be used by humans in both good and bad ways. Lots of data can be made to look lots of different ways in the hands of different people.
That’s why teaching critical thinking (not just the skills but the importance and value) is paramount. People need to understand what they’re looking at. Because sometimes you want the mean, other times you want the median, and if you can’t even understand when you might want one or the other or both for different reasons then you can be led around by the nose with either.
You fell for the shitpost
I provided a proper explanation for the silent observers ;)
:-D that’s actually funny. Keep it up, ignore the people that don’t understand satire and downvote.
How can everyone miss the shitpost in the shitposting community. Seeing all the downvotes is so funny
That’s because there’s always someone bringing politics into casual conversations and it’s tiresome. Yes the world is fucked, most of us here are well aware. Let us enjoy some escapism every now and then, maybe.
It is a joke in a joke sub. Take a break from the news if random shitposts are triggering you
Seeing your relatively high involvement in defending a simple “joke”, I’d say you’re more triggered than the ones down voting, but whatever, you do you.
I don’t really care, I laughed at the joke. I only find it sad we can’t shitpost in a shitposting community anymore without dumb fucks downvoting it.
In case you’re still stuck on Reddit mechanisms, downvotes are not a disagree button. It should be reserved for out of place comments that do not further the discussion.
So we can solve drug abuse by being nice?
😂 how does the fact that that average person doesn’t use meth oppress anyone?
makes meth addicts feel left out
It’s almost as if the different forms of averages are useful for different applications.
You gain a lot more information about a dataset when you have both the mean and the median, compared to just the mean.