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| Dawn Flood to Paul Aubrin |
| Re: IT'S SO HOT THAT IT'S COLD!!!!! |
| 08 Feb 26 09:05:52 |
XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com On 2/8/2026 6:16 AM, Paul Aubrin wrote: > Le 07/02/2026 à 17:46, Dawn Flood a écrit : >> Sorry, but outliers are important! > > 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. Once again, scientists investigate outliers ALL the time!! They typically do not "write them off" unless it is clear that a prosaic explanation exists to explain them (background noise, calibration errors, human error, etc.) --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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