Re:We Need a Basic Income Guarantee
by lutusp on Sunday September 01, 2013 @11:55PM
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> The median is not found by (H-L)/2+L. Read that Wikipedia entry again.
I really did read it, but I managed to take it to mean the midpoint of the range, all evidence to the contrary. It seems I tripped on the words "middle value", which is ambiguous.
Re:We Need a Basic Income Guarantee
by textminer on Monday September 02, 2013 @12:05AM
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Yeah! Modes of centrality can mean lots of things. It's why it can be so frustrating when media folks casually toss out "average" for long-tailed things that require way more specificity.
I really did read it, but I managed to take it to mean the midpoint of the range, all evidence to the contrary. It seems I tripped on the words "middle value", which is ambiguous.