Why Not to Trust Statistics: Variance
Disastrous results are excused as 'a lot of variance', but the spread is one outlier among uniformly terrible results.
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Variance: "These results are a disaster!" "Sure, they look bad, but there's a lot of variance! Don't rush to judgment."
[Distribution: almost everything at "terrible results," one "outlier" at "great results"]