Re: [OT] History of debian-user footer.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:02:27PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
> * John Hasler (john@dhh.gt.org) wrote:
> > Cam Ellison wrote:
> > > As I remind my clients frequently, when I refuse to recommend a
> > > candidate: half the population is below average.
> >
> > Do any of your clients ever remind you that the mean is not the
> median?
>
> Most of them probably understand the concept quite well (engineers,
> accountants, MBAs), but it doesn't seem to occur to them,
> interestingly enough. Mind you, with a sufficiently large sample, the
> values of the median and the mean are indistinguishable.
If you make some assumptions about the distribution (statistical, not
linux)
Frank
> This conversation is already way too serious.
>
> Cam
>
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