Outliers

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  sometimes it is important to show the outlier.

  I believe that the US census removes billionaires from their calculations on wage and household income.

  Because that would make the mean look towards the outlier. And that might spark some public debate about billionaires and the effect billionaires have on society.

  but for some reason they prefer to just remove the outliers from their data to suit their statistics just like science.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I live in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. Here we only have two classes. Rich as fuck (including a ton of billionaires), and barely surviving. If you don’t remove the outliers, this area would never receive any assistance for all those in need.

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    • homesnatch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The “median” should cover that unless the super rich are over 50% of the population.

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think they don’t so much “remove” them as that billionaires tend to not have their money as “wage income” like the rest of us plebes.

    They get “stock options”, which occasionally they can cash out, and then THAT counts as income, while the rest remains in the digital ether where it just auto-magically grows and grows, at the expense of all the wage-earners.

    So they aren’t “earning” more (wages) than us, so much as they are treated as an entirely different type of being (capital).

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  • joostjakob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How would making states, towns or neighborhoods look richer cause outrage? For income statistics, median us a much better measure in most cases, because it reflects “the average experience” much better. If you want to highlight income inequality, there’s plenty of other stats you can use, e.g. the percentage of all income going to the top 1%.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So he referenced the meme and someone went on imgflip and did exactly what he’d said?

  Masterpiece indeed

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  • shikogo@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Let her be proud of her students, teaching is hard enough as it is

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    • antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well sure, but if we’ll lower the bar for a masterpiece to this level we’ll be in for some dire times.

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  • ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    She*

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah my bad, I’ll edit

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• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  img

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Mode just being totally left out

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    as it should be

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• Klanky@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The kids are alright

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s an XKCD for that

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• ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Needs more pixels.

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