On 06/11/2014 11:29 PM, Robert C. Helling wrote:
On 11 Jun 2014, at 20:15, Lutz Vieweg wrote:
I guess if somebody really wants to visualize an informative
statement on "How deep do I usually dive?" then a histogram
would be the best way to do it:
"Depth" on the X-Axis, "Total time spent in that
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Robert C. Helling wrote:
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> On 11 Jun 2014, at 20:15, Lutz Vieweg wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> > I guess if somebody really wants to visualize an informative
> > statement on "How deep do I usually dive?" then a histogram
> > would be the best way to do it:
> >
On 11 Jun 2014, at 20:15, Lutz Vieweg wrote:
Hi,
> I guess if somebody really wants to visualize an informative
> statement on "How deep do I usually dive?" then a histogram
> would be the best way to do it:
> "Depth" on the X-Axis, "Total time spent in that depth" on the
> Y-Axis, and then 20-
On 06/10/2014 07:44 AM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
I decided to just remove the average. This really doesn't provide any
interesting information, whichever semantic we pick.
Good, that was my favorite option, too.
I guess if somebody really wants to visualize an informative
statement on "How deep do
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 07:25:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> >
> > Average right now is the average depth of all the dives - not the average
> > of all the deepest depths. From a mathematical point of view this makes
> > perfect sense. But
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
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> Average right now is the average depth of all the dives - not the average
> of all the deepest depths. From a mathematical point of view this makes
> perfect sense. But it is extremely unintuitive - especially when the
> average frequently is
This email will make some old-timers giggle.
We've had this discussion quite a few times. At least three or four times
a year it seems like.
And after resoundingly defending our nomenclature for many years I think
I'm finally coming around.
Should we change the meaning of the "average" depth?
De
