Saturday, January 03, 2009

When an arts major studies statistics

"It is MEAN to call me AVERAGE"

"The MEDIAN is in the MIDDLE of the street"

"It is COMMON to follow the latest MODE"

Dorktastick? yes. Effective? YES.

(and I'd like to offer a little shout out to the diagnostician at Gallup Jr. High who explained most of this to me in easy to understand chunks a few years ago. Or at least explained enough for me to interpret test results and make this stuff easier to parse since I won't need too much of it, anyway. Thanks, Mike, wherever you are.)

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