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Comment by laichzeit0

3 months ago

I don’t trust point estimates like 14%. It’s like calculating an average salary and saying it’s $120k. Completely meaningless. What does the actual distribution look like that this was pulled from? No standard deviation. Is it even symmetric? What’s the 10th and 90th percentiles? Just giving a statistic on its own tells me nothing.

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