Normal Island

[Beebo]

A little amusing video for the 49.9%ers.


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/tF-HzxO_yM8?si=gx0MGGyVrnBSmF5N

 

[C R]

A little amusing video for the 49.9%ers.


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/tF-HzxO_yM8?si=gx0MGGyVrnBSmF5N

 

[matticus]

A little amusing video for the 49.9%ers.


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/tF-HzxO_yM8?si=gx0MGGyVrnBSmF5N

I love the guy, but do you think he talks to family members like this?? 😆

 

[Rusty Nails]

I love the guy, but do you think he talks to family members like this?? 😆

I quite like his take on politics but he can be an arrogant ar*ehole, with an eye on his image.

Politicians who go up against him deserve what they get, that is their job, but I'm not sure some of the public, who may not match him for knowledge and intelligence, do.

 

[winjim]

Half the population being below average intelligence tells you nothing about the overall intelligence of the population. And that's quite apart from intelligence being this nebulous, bullshit quality that's impossible to define or measure.

 

[C R]

I quite like his take on politics but he can be an arrogant ar*ehole, with an eye on his image.

Politicians who go up against him deserve what they get, that is their job, but I'm not sure some of the public, who may not match him for knowledge and intelligence, do.

My head banging was really for both. For the caller not understanding that 50% of the sample will always be below whatever average. But also for O'Brien because that mathematical fact doesn't tell us anything about the discussion.

 

[Mr Celine]

I didn't bother turning the sound on. Was the caller Michael Gove?

 

[Ian H]

Glen Baxter sums it up.

 

[theclaud]

Happy New Year*, anyway, you lot.

*Wishful thinking, obvs, but there we are...

 

[theclaud]

🇵🇸 Free Palestine

 

[monkers]

Happy New Year*, anyway, you lot.

*Wishful thinking, obvs, but there we are...

It's an arbitrary date. Up until 1752 New Year's day was celebrated on March 25th. Pope Gregory changed it (I'll say allegedly rather that subscribe to any sky fairy nonsense).

Any way, Seasons Greetings and all that. I wish each of you ongoing health, happiness for 365 days and beyond.

 

[Ian H]

It's an arbitrary date. Up until 1752 New Year's day was celebrated on March 25th. Pope Gregory changed it (I'll say allegedly rather that subscribe to any sky fairy nonsense).

Any way, Seasons Greetings and all that. I wish each of you ongoing health, happiness for 365 days and beyond.

Lady Day. It was the day when new contracts were exchanged, when labourers gathered to sell their services for a pittance. When the calendar was changed the date persisted: adjusted for the 11 'missing' days it became the 5th of April. Even at the end of the 19th C Lady Day labour fairs still occurred.
Nowadays it's just the start of the new tax year.

 

[C R]

Lady Day. It was the day when new contracts were exchanged, when labourers gathered to sell their services for a pittance. When the calendar was changed the date persisted: adjusted for the 11 'missing' days it became the 5th of April. Even at the end of the 19th C Lady Day labour fairs still occurred.
Nowadays it's just the start of the new tax year.

It sort of matches the persian calendar. In the persian calendar the year starts in the first full day after the spring equinox, which is around the 21st of March.

 

[Rusty Nails]

My head banging was really for both. For the caller not understanding that 50% of the sample will always be below whatever average. But also for O'Brien because that mathematical fact doesn't tell us anything about the discussion.

Pedant alert:


Is this true, whether the average is the mean, median or mode? It is probably true more often when the median is used as the average, less so when the mean or mode are used.

O'Brien was lucky in that he argued with someone with no understanding of statistics.

 

[C R]

Pedant alert:


Is this true, whether the average is the mean, median or mode? It is probably true more often when the median is used as the average, less so when the mean or mode are used.

O'Brien was lucky in that he argued with someone with no understanding of statistics.

Strictly it is always exactly true for the median of a continuous distribution, whatever its shape, as that is the definition of the median. In general, for things like weight, height and so on the distribution approximates a gaussian, and mean, median and mode will be very close to each other.

For a very asymmetric discrete distribution things can sound weird unless you think carefully about it.