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Re:Code Is Never “Perfect”, Code Is Only Ever “Good Enough” by skybrian on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:01PM (#12118038)
Great link! But also, the mean is itself an imperfect summary of some distributions. Any single-number summary will be misleading in some cases.
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Re:Code Is Never “Perfect”, Code Is Only Ever “Good Enough” by bradleyjg on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:13PM (#12118095)
Anscombe's quartet is a great illustration of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet

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Re:Code Is Never “Perfect”, Code Is Only Ever “Good Enough” by fbonetti on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:42PM (#12118629)
That's really cool! Btw, I'd love to drop that line into casual conversation some time. "Anscombe's quartet" has a nice flow to it.
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