Re:When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)
by Retric on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:45PM
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> would serve to "normalize" the sample
The slope of a bell curve near it’s center is almost flat. This means you end up with a fairly uniform distribution when looking at values near the median. Which makes outliers within that range more common than intuition suggests.
The slope of a bell curve near it’s center is almost flat. This means you end up with a fairly uniform distribution when looking at values near the median. Which makes outliers within that range more common than intuition suggests.