why is it said that Statistics is like a bikini..............?
601109
I think the rest of the saying is:\n\nWhat is revealed is interesting...\n\nWhat is hidden is even more interesting!
270417
Succinctly, for the normal ditribution, the three averages are equal, that is the mean, median and mode are all the same. Not so in other cases.
859045
No, rather a hugely misused tool.\n\nThat said, politicians and media are getting away with misusing statistics because they *and* Mr and Mrs John Public don't have the elementary notions of statistics needed to distinguish between the good, the bad and the ugly.
469807
nothing, mean is just a different word for average.  the median and mode have different meanings though.  the median is the number right in the middle of all the data, the range is the lowest number to the higest number in the data, and the mode is the number that occurs most often.\n\n"bradsgranny" down there is COMPLETEY wrong, the MODE, like i said, is the number that occurs most often, not the mean...people should check their sources before they write something that is entirely WRONG.
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That means a survey of a population of similar cases to find out what percentage of cases exhibit one characteristic versus another. It's a statistical kind of attempt to find out what the average is and how much different cases might deviate from the average case. In mathematical statistics they refer to these parameters of the population as the mean and standard deviation.
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I usually prefer not to use it; anyway very many things are based on statistics: most branches of medicine, TV programs' shares, quality control of any little object you buy...\n\nIf I find others, I'll update the answer.
96188
I am truly wondering where you have found this statistic? I have not seen that this is true in any sense
919776
As shogunly said, compared.\n\nWhy? The reason for that answer is in bold below-\n\nRe-written, the sentence would read...\n\nThe results are compared to those of a national Demographic and Health survey to give a <b>comparative</b> impression of the socio-economic and health situation on Nias.\n\n(though, looking at the original sentence, shouldn't it be "weighted against"? ::frowns:: Then again, I dropped out of school, so I can't really be sure.)
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Did you know:\n\n- 92% of posters named "ast5792" make up statistics?\n\n- Over 77% of readers believe them?\n\n- 84% of statistics are made to fit the argument?\n\n- 98% of unsupported opinions have fake statistics attached to them?\n\n- 100% of the statistics I give in this post are unfounded (as are yours)
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I'm assuming the quote is meant to be a joke, but actually, it would be very surprising to find out that 50% of children are of below average intelligence. This would imply that the arithmetic mean of children's intelligence was identically equal to the median, an unusual observation.
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Everywhere. Statistics as a science is, generally speaking, the art of using samples to estimate the truth about the whole. SInce we are always trying to figure out answers about the world, predicting the future and understanding the past - like weather patterns, human behavior, lottery results, health outcomes etc... we use statistics. \n\nFor example: if we want to know how popular the president is we can do the following:\n1. Ask everyone in the US what they think of the president.\n2. Take a sample of people and use their answer as a "good guess" regarding how the rest of the people would have answered.\n\nOption 1 would take wayyyyyy too long. Option 2, if executed properly, could get a pretty close guess as to the % of people who liked/didn't like the president. SInce we are never 100$ sure about our guesses in statistics, we always have a margin of error (in surveys they say + or - 3% for instance. That's because the answer is based on a statistical guess, not every person in the US answering).
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Your data set would look like this:\n\n10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 235 235\n\nThe mean is 730/20 = 36.5.\nThe median is (10+20)/2 = 15.\nThe mode is 10.\n\nSo certainly what was stated by the dean isn't a lie.\n\nNow, if I were to calculate, say, the average number of classmates for each person in the statistics classes, there would be 100 9's, 160 19's, and 470 234's.  So the average number of classmates for people taking these classes is approximately 113,920/730 = 156.05.  The median is 234 and the mode is also 234.  So the newspaper isn't really lying either.\n\nI guess you can say that they are looking at this from two different perspecitves, so in that sense, there are two truths.
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oh please like those charts are realistic to begin with...worry more about your fat percentage than your weight...it is true that muscle weighs more than fat and you can be overweight and in better shape than the rail of a girl in the dressing room trying on the bikini
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Just enter "statistical anomaly" in the search bar on the Yahoo home page for a real answer.
525446
It figures that "The Guy" would say that it is "overrated". The whole theory of "skinny-dippping" is erotic is because it is out of the norm. Most people in this country are taught that nudity is wrong... When it is actually " au natural".
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statistics would be numbers and facts that relate to your topic (for example: # of states that allow gay marriage) \n\n"illustrating the numbers" just means that you put the numbers that you found (your statistics) into a graph or chart.
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Statistical:\nOf, relating to, or employing statistics or the principles of statistics.\n\nThe word statistics is also the plural of statistic (singular), which refers to the result of applying a statistical algorithm to a set of data.