diff --git a/blog/statistics_for_evil.html b/blog/statistics_for_evil.html index a6644fe..4a3faff 100644 --- a/blog/statistics_for_evil.html +++ b/blog/statistics_for_evil.html @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@
the original statistic on meat consumption and life expectancy was actually part of a post influencing people to a carnivorous diet. apparently veganism is no longer the hip and healthy thing to do, because eating raw sticks of butter and consuming unpasteurized dairy is the trend now. i actually have too many opinions about this, but i won't babble on.
-anyway! here's some facts i made up.
+anyway! here's some made up facts, collected from doomscrolling on reels.
+ +data distribution matters. especially when 1% of the population holds 30.4% of the country's wealth as of Q1 2024. here, a different measure of central tendency, the median, is much more appropriate, and that number is $74,580.
-of course, measures of dispersion would give additional insight, but if your attention span can only capture one number at a time, let it be the median.
+measures of dispersion would give nice insight, but if your attention span can only capture one number at a time, let it be the median.
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