[PLUG-TALK] For astronomy buffs

[Rich Shepard]

   This from a statistics mail list this morning.

Rich

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A really nice example of an instance where an "outlier" was the whole story
scientifically and hiding it with statistical summaries, here an "average"
of some sort, lost the science. Moral: "Look at your data and think." (Ellis
Ott)

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/proxima-centauri-flare-may-have-fried-earths-nearest-exoplanet?tgt=nr

Cheers,
Bert