Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case

Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by komali2 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @01:48PM (#24001024)

Is the average as relevant as some other statistical measure that I'm not knowledgeable enough to know about? For example if the vast majority of views are on 10% of the videos, the other 90% could be stored on less expensive hardware that has less bandwidth maybe?

edit: for example the average net worth of an American is 76,000$ but toss a couple billionaires in the mix, whose net worth is larger by such an enormous factor, that the "average" is misleading

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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by doersino on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:15PM (#24001303)

You’re thinking of the median (the value that ends up in the middle after sorting), which is indeed more useful in such cases.

(Of course, boiling a wide distribution of values down to a single value, no matter by which process, is fraught with problems.)

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