[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

Stephen Bain stephen.bain at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 21:27:58 UTC 2011


On Sep 6, 2011 7:11 AM, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The mean and median are statistical gibberish in a distribution that
> pathologically bimodal. You should know better than to make any claim
> that the numbers you quote are meaningful.

16% of respondents chose '0' and 20% chose '10'. Nearly 2/3 of respondents
chose a response other than one of the two extremes.

(There's also a third spike at '5', representing a typical/normal/no
different than other features level of importance, with the remaining
responses being weighted towards the upper end of the scale.)


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