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Re:Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve yo... by bransonf on Monday December 09, 2019 @01:52PM (#21745227)
That professor was wrong or your understanding is.

There are plenty of statistically viable ways to determine differences between groups. Even a simple T-test is usually sufficient.

The difference of means does not have to be more than the range in either group. Standard deviation is what’s important here. You use a test statistic to determine the relative value of the real mean within a confidence interval. It’s whether these intervals overlap that you can determine a significant difference between groups.

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Re:Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve yo... by travisoneill1 on Monday December 09, 2019 @02:11PM (#21745370)
I know that the professor was wrong. That was the point of the comment. That a professor in a so called science class could get the math so comically wrong.
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