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Corporate vs. Statisticians: Same Data, Different Reality

Corporate vs. Statisticians: Same Data, Different Reality
Corporate sees two different target sheets and demands you find the differences. Meanwhile, statisticians are sitting there thinking, "Yeah, one's a single data point and the other is two data points with a plus sign between them—statistically equivalent when averaged." It's the perfect encapsulation of how executives obsess over meaningless variations while data scientists know that with enough mathematical gymnastics, you can make anything look identical. Two bullet holes or one? Just change your confidence interval and suddenly they're "not significantly different." Problem solved, promotion earned.

Something Is Nothing

Something Is Nothing
Ever notice how physicists can take something incredibly dramatic and reduce it to zero with a straight face? This little square dude is explaining the magic of sine waves and averages like it's no big deal. "Yes, we had extreme highs and catastrophic lows, but mathematically speaking... nothing happened!" That's basically how I explain my weekend to my boss on Monday mornings. The ultimate scientific gaslighting technique - proving that something is technically nothing. Next time your experiment explodes, just calculate the average and claim perfect equilibrium!

Statistical Malpractice On A Tissue Box

Statistical Malpractice On A Tissue Box
Whoever wrote "On average, there are 9.2 million doctors and 18.1 million nurses worldwide" on this tissue box clearly failed Statistics 101. Unless doctors are secretly reproducing asexually at night, there's a fixed total of medical professionals, not an "average." It's like saying "on average, water is wet." The irony of putting this statistical abomination on a product designed for sniffles when the real disease is mathematical illiteracy. Next they'll tell us there are "on average" 7 continents—sometimes 6, sometimes 8, depending on the weather.