Is that ... normal?
*Badum, Tish!*
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Who'd have thought that statistics actually work |
Was bored yesterday so I decided to mess around with the times that people did the Total Warrior run in. For the 10k event there were 1500 people so I used that (largest data set). The quickest time was 40 something minutes and the slowest was around 3 hours. I separated the data into 10 minute blocks and plotted a graph of number of people against each time slot. The result... a perfect distribution curve! I've only ever seen sets of data given to me by maths teachers and books. Heh! |
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| Author: | jonlumb [ Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who'd have thought that statistics actually work |
Glad to see I'm not the only person that does random things like this! But yes, you've got a decent enough sample size there that you'll start to see some reasonable correlation. |
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| Author: | phantombudgie [ Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who'd have thought that statistics actually work |
Is that ... normal? *Badum, Tish!* |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:26 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Who'd have thought that statistics actually work | |||||||||
ROFL! |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:37 am ] | |||||||||
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And it appears in so many places if you look closely. One of the amazing things about statistics. --- - Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk. |
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| Author: | Alexgadgetman [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:00 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Who'd have thought that statistics actually work | |||||||||
Sounds very fishy to me 
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:23 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Took me a while... "Taxi for Alex" I'll get you coat.  --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=53.851108,-1.530976 |
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| Author: | Alexgadgetman [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:14 am ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I had *beta* get going then
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:21 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Who'd have thought that statistics actually work | ||||||||||||||||||
Oi! Don't be mean!
Surely statistics is about not looking closely?
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:27 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Who'd have thought that statistics actually work | ||||||||||||||||||
Oh god, I read that thinking "doesn't he realise it was a joke!".  Anyway, can we stop deviating from the original topic.
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:29 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Who'd have thought that statistics actually work | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We can chi to |
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| Author: | koli [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 5:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who'd have thought that statistics actually work |
From my experience statics work in 99.99% of situations. It is the interpretation that usually fails. |
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| Author: | Alexgadgetman [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:35 pm ] | |||||||||
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We certainly can chi to, but can't 'CATAGORICAL'ly guaran'T' success.. |
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| Author: | adidan [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:41 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Anova bad joke.
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| Author: | Alexgadgetman [ Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:45 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ok ok, I'll stop. But the first one was stand up quality (as my maths teacher would have said, 'one for the maths parties'). Admittedly the quality did fall just a little on the third  On the actual topic, after two years of alevel maths, I no longer do statistics. In any form 
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