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To: DBrow
Ok! Ok! You are technically correct. I should have used proper terminology - after all this is Free Republic, not The Daily Kos (where the population is highly skewed towards the lowest quartile of the bell curve).

However, in a normally distributed population, the mean (average), the median, and the mode are the same value.

BTW, when I think of nooses, I associate them with "Hang 'Em High", "The Oxbow Incident", and "Judgment at Nuremberg".

94 posted on 12/14/2007 10:36:59 PM PST by reg45
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To: reg45
lol! Doesn’t it seem that there are far more people below the mean than above? We assume a Gaussian distribution without significant kurtosis, but the ratio of idiots to savants seems skewed sometimes, like “The Bell Curve” has a leftish component. I don’t think we are dealing with a normal population and Daily Kos suggests that that is true.

Nooses should not become a term that belongs to minorities, since during the time of most lynchings, most lynching victims were White.

111 posted on 12/15/2007 6:48:56 PM PST by DBrow
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