A perfect example of why median exists
Easy mistake, her name is Merida. Not sure what she’s a perfect example of though?
Percentile gang, let’s go! 😎
The median, or 50th percentile, here would be 17 or 18, meaning 50% of the princesses are aged 17 or lower, and 50% are aged 18 or higher.
Nah, it’s the perfect example of why the median is a pathetic excuse of a statistical tool that is only used by those that wish to opress minorities
the median person uses 0mg of meth a day, the mean person uses about 1.7mg per day.
medians supress minorities
the mean person uses about 1.7mg per day
So we can solve drug abuse by being nice?
The median is a statistical fact that can be used by humans in both good and bad ways. Lots of data can be made to look lots of different ways in the hands of different people.
That’s why teaching critical thinking (not just the skills but the importance and value) is paramount. People need to understand what they’re looking at. Because sometimes you want the mean, other times you want the median, and if you can’t even understand when you might want one or the other or both for different reasons then you can be led around by the nose with either.
:-D that’s actually funny. Keep it up, ignore the people that don’t understand satire and downvote.
😂 how does the fact that that average person doesn’t use meth oppress anyone?
This still is killing me. Why is this so funny? All the others look like good images of the characters!
This is just how people with Scottish blood look when you take photos of them, my source is my family photo album.
This is why the concept of statistical outlier and standard deviation exists.
Had I seen something like this in any analysis I would either assume some fault in the measurement (either reading or technical) or error in punching the data. Then ignored the result if it couldn’t be reproduced, but leave it in the raw data/graph/figure and explain the exlution.
Heck, even opting for median age over the mean would work in this case!
