Time to ride
Reading wasn't your strong point??
Roughly half wouldn't even make average, meaning above average would hardly figure at all... The rest are crap drivers.
Definition of average: The sum of all numbers, divided by the number of numbers.
Take 10 numbers (representing drivers skill perhaps) 1, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 7, 8. The average is 4.5, Oh, half the numbers are below this, and half are above.
In any sample if roughly half are below average, then roughly half will be above average.
What would be your definition of average?
Time to ride
Roughly half wouldn't make average, meaning roughly half are crap. The other half think they are good drivers and the other half think they are gods gift to driving, as for the half that is then left, half of that might be Ok drivers but half think they are not, and half of the three that are finally left are definitely better than average half...
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
"Live to Ride, Ride to Live"
Yes, in your example there would not be half of the number either side of the mean, but the 800 is such an extreme outlier that it is outside the confidence interval and could not be considered as part of the same sample. In any normal distribution there will be roughly half of the sample either side of the mean, there will be exactly half either side of the median.
Incidentally, I'll have these maths posts moved to a thread of their own.
Time to ride
But sometimes the cream of crap is far better than the worst of the best.![]()
Time to ride
43
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
"Live to Ride, Ride to Live"
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Bookmarks