• @[email protected]
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    408 months ago

    Can we teach people that averages are almost never what you care about and instead we should always report on and look at full distributions, but through memes?

    Maybe I need Squidward memes

    • @grue
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      838 months ago

    • DreamButt
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      108 months ago

      Think part of the issue is the casual use of the word “average” really means “what I normally experience on a given day”. So in casual conversation it is talking about something akin to the middle of a distribution curve. It gets lost in translation due to the same word being used in two different ways

      • @AtmaJnana
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        18 months ago

        I think average just means “normative” to most people.