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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by p0llard on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:04PM (#23851794)
> "the function f(x) = 15 is an average, but since it's a constant function it will almost always be a terrible one"

It has minimum variance, how can it be a terrible estimator?.. ;)

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by fractionalhare on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:20PM (#23852022)
Hah, that's a good rebuttal. Well it would be an excellent estimator if it was unbiased (or at least had very little bias). But if f is an estimator for the true average of a function F where E[F] = 100 (for example), it's very clearly not unbiased.

It is a bit tongue in cheek.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by p0llard on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:23PM (#23852068)
> It is a bit tongue in cheek.

As was my reply ;)

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by smabie on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:22PM (#23852063)
It is a very precise function, I'll give it that.
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