Your piece sort of ties into something I was already working on, and I wanted to make sure what I was writing came off more as respectful disagreement rather than flamethrower, if you will. You wrote: ...

The mean is the (Sum of Numbers*Frequencies)/(Sum of Frequencies). In the example the sum of the frequencies is 23, so the mean is 104/23=4.5. In formula form, the mean of numbers x 1 which occurs ...

The mean is the (Sum of Numbers*Frequencies)/(Sum of Frequencies). In the example the sum of the frequencies is 23, so the mean is 104/23=4.5. In formula form, the mean of numbers x which occur with ...

Let me be upfront: this post will contain statistics. Not the fun, pithy kind like “60 percent of statistics are made up on the spot,” but actual cold, hard statistical practices. Joking aside, I’m ...