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sigmaleph ([personal profile] sigmaleph) wrote2022-03-05 09:07 am

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In your opinion, what is the "statistical error" being alluded to in the spiders georg meme?

1) using the arithmetic mean as a statistic when the distribution has one massive outlier skewing it

2) using a sample containing said massive outlier to calculate the arithmetic mean

3) something else
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[personal profile] wingedcatgirl 2022-03-05 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
1 and 2 are fundamentally the same error, is our hot take.