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Slothometric Mean

August 6, 2024Original blog post

The 'Slothometric Mean', defined and illustrated.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-08-06-which-mean-do-you-mean--slothometric-mean/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Slothometric Mean: one data point, treated as universal. A: "Sorry, people don't care for radishes." B: "Based on actual data? Or are you just extrapolating from your own preference?" A: "My preference *is* data."

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Statistics › Sampling › Sample SizeStatistics › Measures of Center
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