Comment on A delicate balance
kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoDepends on the type of distribution too. In some discrete cases there isn’t a mean value. A binary choice for example has no applicability of the golden mean. Like a two party system. If neither represents your values, you can only choose the one that mostly does. Which is not the optimal outcome, just the local maxima.
The golden mean argument also assumes that there is only one good soulution, where multiple equally good ones can exist too.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think you fundamentally misunderstand Golden Mean if you argument against it with statistics and I’ll leave it here.
kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
If I mix water and cement there is a distribution of the two, a ratio if you will. Just because statistics deals with distributions (of probabilities for example) doesn’t mean all distributions are in the field of statistics.
I’ll leave it at that.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Man you’re trying to solve metaphysics wirh ratios and cement and shit lol go away
kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
As hard as it may be to believe, I can’t eat metaphysics for put a roof above my head with it. Even Plato didn’t sit on perfect abstract chairs or ate abstract apples.