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Article #861Re: Desperate situation
From: William B Dwinnell
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:05
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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