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Comment by dmitrygr

4 months ago

+1

I suspect that the marketing guy's eyes glazed over when the engineers tried to explain confidence intervals to him. He demanded a simple figure. They gave him the median projected value to make him go away. The tested value was above median projection and thus you get this wordspew.

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yunnpp  4 months ago

> Make him go away

Spoken like a true engineer.

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