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Re:The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Ex... by jmartrican on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:00AM (#33246466)
Do they use average for these numbers? I suspect they do. I wish they would give median, mode, and standard deviation also.
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Re:The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Ex... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:29AM (#33246813)
It is super rare to see information on the data’s distribution. You are lucky if they even specify if the average is mean or median.
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