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Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep... by Scoundreller on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:04PM (#32271561)
Who cares what the median is, though I'm surprised it's not zero.

The average is much higher at 29 mcg, so each gram is a far more reasonable $35k. But the variability is enormous. Choose the right bills and it'll cost you just under $8k (and a fortune in acetonitrile, but you can recover that!).

"Results demonstrated that "92% of the bills were positive for cocaine with a mean amount of 28.75 ± 139.07 micrograms per bill"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency

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Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep... by ta988 on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:10AM (#32273050)
You are going to spend more on solvents, equipment and work to extract that than finding a dealer somewhere.
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Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep... by boomboomsubban on Friday July 29, 2022 @01:12AM (#32273389)
>so each gram is a far more reasonable $35k. But the variability is enormous. Choose the right bills and it'll cost you just under $8k

I assume a fair portion of the variability is in the bill amount, so the $35k dream is unreachable and the eight thousand bills likely requires mostly hundreds.

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Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep... by tbrownaw on Thursday July 28, 2022 @09:04PM (#32271942)
> mean amount of 28.75 ± 139.07 micrograms per bill"

Can I get the one with the negative 110 micrograms in it?

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Re:FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe dep... by thaumasiotes on Friday July 29, 2022 @01:26AM (#32273450)
The distribution of cocaine is probably not symmetric around the mean. Should that stop us from using statistical methods that rely on assuming it is?
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