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| Re: IT'S SO HOT THAT IT'S COLD!!!!! |
| 09 Feb 26 16:06:31 |
XPost: alt.global-warming, sci.skeptic From: paul.aubrin@invalid.org Le 09/02/2026 à 02:36, Dawn Flood a écrit : > On 2/8/2026 12:49 PM, Paul Aubrin wrote: >> Le 08/02/2026 à 16:05, Dawn Flood a écrit : >>>> Maybe, but they cannot have much influence on the statistical >>>> distribution and they cannot "attribute" them to anything. >>> >>> With respect to the median, generally, yes; on the mean, well, it >>> depends. >> >> An outlier is not a statistical moment. > > Um, this is nonsense: "Climate" is a statistical notion over 30 years or more. Outliers don't change the mean or the variance of a 30 years series in any significant way. NB : In England, it has been observed that outliers are more fréquent when jets pass near the thermometers in airports. One minute before and one minute after there is no outlier. That's a strange phenomenon that nobody has the time to study. --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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