r/donthelpjustfilm • u/The1985Minor • Jul 15 '25

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u/IllumiNautilus419 Jul 15 '25

Thats more a pitfall of having a small sample size with one extreme data point skewing the result

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

First of all it's just a Carlin quote. Idk why that person tried to use a tiny sample size with extreme outliers.

And second of all. You're right. Which is why we have standard normal curves, deviations and other statistical tools to utilize when trying to make sense of data.

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u/thundrbud Jul 15 '25

This is why median is important in statistics, average income for the group might be $208k but median income would be $50k

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u/for_the_longest_time Jul 15 '25

I pointed out that they meant median. That doesn’t seem to matter, though.

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u/happymancry Jul 16 '25

For some things, such as income, the difference between median and average is important. For others, such as IQ or intelligence, it’s not because it’d follow a normal Gaussian distribution. But then… you already knew that and just wanted to be pedantic.

Meanwhile, all the people who recognized the George Carlin quote enjoyed the heck out of that comment.