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Re: Desperate situation

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From: William B Dwinnell
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:05
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While I'll readily accept the definition (interpretation) of "average",
as you guys are using it, with respect to this problem, it should
be noted that means are not just "means". By this I mean that a mean
is just taking over a series of numbers, but rather it s
is of a series of numbers, over some domain. Remember, when you
calulate them mean, you e perform a summation, and divide by some value
(typically the highest value in the domain).  So, you have calculated
the mean number of attempts, over people who try, whereas I 
calculated the number of tries, when half of the people would be 
dead (the median). Actually, my number is a mean, but  in a different
domain. My number was the mean un  number of attempts made, over 
possible outcomes (I think).
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