Espen Vestre <espen@vestre.net> wrote:
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| Johan Ur Riise <johan@riise-data.no> writes:
| >> Just like 80% of the population think they drive better than average
| >
| > You know, this is possible, if there are a few really bad drivers.
|
| But then the arithmetic mean is a bad average measure... (on data
| sets like this, the median is usually a better bet).
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Or maybe Johan just lives here: ;-} ;-}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon
As Garrison Keillor avers continually:
"Lake Wobegon -- where all the women are strong, all the men are
good looking, and all the children are above average, every one."
-Rob
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