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To: VRWC_minion
"Guy just made larger error than math error. He doesn't know the difference between median and mean."

I caught what you are talking about. The guy then said that he refigured all the figures - and only those two (I think it was two) were wrong. What did you get out of that? If he had refigured all the figures - would more than that have come out wrong - or could the median and mean been the same on all those other figures? Do you understand what I'm getting at?

360 posted on 08/01/2002 11:35:46 AM PDT by mommya
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To: mommya
In this case the median and the mean are the same thing, because there are only two numbers (min & max). Either way, Golf miscalculated the median (or the mean).

367 posted on 08/01/2002 11:39:36 AM PDT by james_hayes
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To: mommya
What did you get out of that?

I wasn't following close enough to get anything out of it. What troubles me is that he didn't understand the difference in a basic math concept.

Either he was being deceitful or inadequately trained in math. In that I cannot fathom he doesn't know the difference my guess would be he was being deceitful because he realized his criticism wasn't warranted and didn't want to admit.

379 posted on 08/01/2002 11:41:44 AM PDT by VRWC_minion
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