[PLUG-TALK] For astronomy buffs

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Mon Mar 5 21:05:25 UTC 2018


On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 07:12:27AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 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. 

The average person has one breast and one testicle,
and has been dead a long time.  I hunt for exceptions,
not averages.  All great science starts with "that's
odd ..."

Keith

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