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| Thread ID: 85378 | 2007-12-08 07:34:00 | What does Average mean? | martynz (5445) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 619200 | 2007-12-10 10:25:00 | Averaging averages of the average is pretty average:waughh: | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 619201 | 2007-12-10 10:58:00 | Apparently in Rugby league a player who has a "pretty average game" is well below par. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 619202 | 2007-12-10 11:47:00 | "Apparently in Rugby league a player who has a "pretty average game" is well below par" I don't think this means what you think it does, to me it says any player that plays a "pretty average game" is doing exactly that and you would not expect that in any game that you want to see, you expect anybody chosen to play in a team to be well above average or else why would anybody want to watch it except for family members of the team concerned. Well below par for above average expectations, I would guess. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 619203 | 2007-12-10 19:00:00 | If everybody in the team is well above average, I probably still wouldn't bother to watch it. The commentators language is more interesting for it's flexibility than the game is (I may not be having an average viewpoint here; but I have my own little world of weirdness.) If I am watching somebody doing their job, a good bulldozer or digger driver will beat a ball kicker any day. :o Heresy! ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 619204 | 2007-12-10 23:04:00 | Apparently in Rugby league a player who has a "pretty average game" is well below par . If a Rugby League player who has a "pretty average game" is well below par, he is probably playing golf!! But didn't Mark Twain say there are three kinds of lies? "Lies, damned lies and statistics" I'm wrong? What did I say? I was quoting from a report in the DomPost . I have a gut feeling that the author/s would like everybody to do better than average . MartynzIt is an impossibility for "everyone to do better than average" - think about it a while . . . . If you wanted to be pedantic about it, then "everyone could improve to do better than the current average", but then the average would have moved and you would still have half the people "below average" . |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 619205 | 2007-12-11 00:24:00 | What percentage of car drivers consider themselves to be "better than average" drivers? Statistical measures should be used appropriately. They seldom are, especially when used by politicians, or journalists. :( Mode, median and mean each have their application. They are not interchangeable. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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