And to support wyatt1048's assertion, as my stats prof said, "figures don't lie but liars figure." Give a statistician raw data, s/he can make it say anything. "Average" has three (or more) definitions, so you can pick whichever one fits the result you want. And so on.
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Date: 2008-03-18 08:00 pm (UTC)Also, the Metro's side bars are always genius: 'If It's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Naked.'
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Date: 2008-03-19 01:19 am (UTC)(sorry, it had to be said.)
And to support wyatt1048's assertion, as my stats prof said, "figures don't lie but liars figure." Give a statistician raw data, s/he can make it say anything. "Average" has three (or more) definitions, so you can pick whichever one fits the result you want. And so on.