Re: Tory distractions to hard Brexit
Lies, damned lies, and statistics - that well known old chestnut.
Nothing can be really gained by just quoting an average. An average, as Glanny said is rather meaningless without describing the variations (the standard deviations, usually ±3SD) around the mean. This only works for a standard distribution of data points, but what if the IQ test results are not standard distributions but one that has a long tail on one side and a short, but heavy-weight bump on the other side of the mean? In that case, Solasch's proclamation of "
Have you considered the meaning of "average" in mathematics and statistics? Like the average IQ of...." really is pointless because one is quoting an "average" or a "mean" in isolation. It has to be qualified by it's position in the data distribution and the variance around it.