Comment by bigmattystyles 4 years ago Only in a standard distribution right? 7 comments bigmattystyles Reply programmer_dude 4 years ago No, the word average is a place holder for measures of central tendencies (like mean, median and mode). nostromo95 4 years ago Any symmetrical distribution will have the mean equal the median. ackfoobar 4 years ago Not exactly. This pathological distribution has no mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution nostromo95 4 years ago You got me—funny thing is I took a couple analysis courses in school so I should have been more careful making such a strong statement. bigmattystyles 4 years ago But that’s the definition of a standard distribution? Intelligence is not, at least I think. nostromo95 4 years ago AFAIK "standard distribution" is not a defined mathematical term; usually it's shorthand for standard normal distribution.Can't comment on intelligence distributions. 1 reply →
programmer_dude 4 years ago No, the word average is a place holder for measures of central tendencies (like mean, median and mode).
nostromo95 4 years ago Any symmetrical distribution will have the mean equal the median. ackfoobar 4 years ago Not exactly. This pathological distribution has no mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution nostromo95 4 years ago You got me—funny thing is I took a couple analysis courses in school so I should have been more careful making such a strong statement. bigmattystyles 4 years ago But that’s the definition of a standard distribution? Intelligence is not, at least I think. nostromo95 4 years ago AFAIK "standard distribution" is not a defined mathematical term; usually it's shorthand for standard normal distribution.Can't comment on intelligence distributions. 1 reply →
ackfoobar 4 years ago Not exactly. This pathological distribution has no mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution nostromo95 4 years ago You got me—funny thing is I took a couple analysis courses in school so I should have been more careful making such a strong statement.
nostromo95 4 years ago You got me—funny thing is I took a couple analysis courses in school so I should have been more careful making such a strong statement.
bigmattystyles 4 years ago But that’s the definition of a standard distribution? Intelligence is not, at least I think. nostromo95 4 years ago AFAIK "standard distribution" is not a defined mathematical term; usually it's shorthand for standard normal distribution.Can't comment on intelligence distributions. 1 reply →
nostromo95 4 years ago AFAIK "standard distribution" is not a defined mathematical term; usually it's shorthand for standard normal distribution.Can't comment on intelligence distributions. 1 reply →
No, the word average is a place holder for measures of central tendencies (like mean, median and mode).
Any symmetrical distribution will have the mean equal the median.
Not exactly. This pathological distribution has no mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution
You got me—funny thing is I took a couple analysis courses in school so I should have been more careful making such a strong statement.
But that’s the definition of a standard distribution? Intelligence is not, at least I think.
AFAIK "standard distribution" is not a defined mathematical term; usually it's shorthand for standard normal distribution.
Can't comment on intelligence distributions.
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