On 15 February 2010 23:24, Ben Jones <bjo...@pipecomp.com.au> wrote: > So when a Lady says your average in bed, Is that Mean ??
Perhaps it depends on her mode :) Paul > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Stevenson" <gst...@dodo.com.au> > To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." > <aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 9:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Average versus median (I am being Mr. Picky...) > > >> Half above and half below, but just who is the pepper picker's son? >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Bart" <pb2...@gmail.com> >> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." >> <aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> >> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:17 PM >> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Average versus median (I am being Mr. Picky...) >> >> >> On 15 February 2010 14:30, Mike Cleaver <wom...@netspeed.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> Another bloody pedant statistician! >> >> Far from it, just a bit of harmless fun :) >> >> Paul, have you identified the one who is >>> >>> the mean and median, and is half of him (or her) above and half below? >> >> Neither really, for even number of values the mean of the middle two >> is taken and that is the only case when half of the values is below >> the mean. >> >> >> Or is >>> >>> this average also the mode, as it should be with a Gaussian distribution? >>> In >>> that case there will be more people of average (modal) intelligence than >>> any >>> other single value of intellegence, but still 68% of people will be >>> within >>> one standard deviation of average (mean, median, mode). >>> >>> (Somehow, I doubt that it really is an idealised bell-curve, as those >>> with >>> grossly below whichever average you care to compare are likely to have >>> less >>> chance of survival than those above it. Further it was claimed somewhere >>> that Albert Einstein had an IQ of 210. I suppose it is possible for >>> someone >>> to have an IQ of less than zero if they consistently get every question >>> wrong on an IQ test, even given more than the permitted time to answer >>> the >>> questions.) >> >> Yes but the original poster said "half has below average inteligence" >> - score did not get a mention, hence no one has to have a negative >> score to balance Albert's score( I bet he would be too smart to get >> himself involved in this discussion). And as you know the frequency >> curve only asymptotes to zero, hence it can accomodate any outliers, >> irrespective of how far from the mean they may be. >> >> cheers >> >> paul >> >> >> >>> >>> Of course, this also depends on intelligence being defined as the ability >>> to >>> perform in IQ tests - which I find to be only one of a number of ways to >>> interpret intelligence. IQ tests are also extremely culturally biased! >>> >>> Some might even consider it intelligent or smart to provoke people and >>> then >>> claim money through the legal system for perceived or manufactured >>> "injury" >>> - I consider that kind of legal system to be not very intelligent at all. >>> >>> Wombat >>> Another bloody pedant statistician (or is that a peasant with blocked >>> nasal >>> passages?) >>> >>> >>> At 14:57 15/02/2010, you wrote: >>>> >>>> On 15 February 2010 13:13, Texler, Michael >>>> <michael.tex...@health.wa.gov.au> wrote: >>>> > >>>> >>Reminds me of a faux-statistic: Of 250 million Americans, half of them >>>> > are below average intelligence :) >>>> > >>>> > Half of them would be below the median intelligence..... >>>> >>>> Correction to the correction :) >>>> >>>> Well only if there is an even number of them, otherwise it would not >>>> be. On the other hand if intelligence follows a normal distribution, >>>> which is the generally accepted fact, then mean equals the median in >>>> which case the original statement is correct >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Aus-soaring mailing list >>>> Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net >>>> To check or change subscription details, visit: >>>> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Aus-soaring mailing list >>> Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net >>> To check or change subscription details, visit: >>> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net >> To check or change subscription details, visit: >> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net >> To check or change subscription details, visit: >> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >> > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
