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joeburke on Aug 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Was Steve Yegge Right?

You only have a 50% chance of this being correct.

Replace "average" with "median" and you're at 100%.

gcp on Aug 2, 2011 [–]

Isn't it normally distributed? In which case using average is fine.

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