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Re:Google Maps visualization of marijuana prices, with over ... by coryl on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @04:28PM (#1692155)
Exactly, we aren't incorporating the volume discount when we scale up smaller quantities of weed. This is because we really just don't know what the average margins of sales between different quantities.

We could display the averages in each quantity, but it would lack enough sample size. Plus having one nice round number is easier to visualize. I think the final .oz average probably within +/-10% accuracy.

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Re:Google Maps visualization of marijuana prices, with over ... by dgc on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @06:38PM (#1692604)
publishing the standard deviation on the normalized price would go a long way towards making the numbers more useful. If you get enough samples you can do a simple fit to attempt to quantify the discount rate.
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