Comments on: How To Analyze Data Using the Average https://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-analyze-data-using-the-average/ Math lessons that click Tue, 03 May 2022 14:33:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Goten213 https://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-analyze-data-using-the-average/#comment-568228 Tue, 03 May 2022 14:33:05 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-analyze-data-using-the-average/#comment-568228 Man, the harmonic mean took me a while to understand. But thinking of it as "Which velocity x could I replace both velocities with so I would travel for the same amount of time, assuming both velocities are done over the same distance" made it easier for me to understand what was going on here.

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]]> By: George Lee https://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-analyze-data-using-the-average/#comment-567315 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:48:40 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-analyze-data-using-the-average/#comment-567315 The problem with "mode":

Suppose there are ten people voting which day the party should be. Four people voted for Sunday, 3 for Monday and 3 for Tuesday. So with mode, the party will be on Sunday. But on Sunday, 3 people have doctor's appointments, and the other 3 have planned trips that can't be delayed. So the party will be on Sunday with only 4 people joining.

On the other hand, Wednesday might be the best choice, that would satisfy everyone, although it wasn't the first choice for either of them. And it might be that most of them just picked a choice randomly, and their mane goal was "not Sunday" or "not Saturday". So mode isn't the most fair strategy.

The solution is, that we should know how much everyone wants his voted day, and how much they don't want the other days. So we need them to rate EVERY day let's say (with a rating) from 1 to 10, and see which day has the highest average rate.

]]> By: George Lee https://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-analyze-data-using-the-average/#comment-567314 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:14:58 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-analyze-data-using-the-average/#comment-567314 In reply to Karthik Sharma.

I also want the same.

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