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Fogmeister
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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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jonlumb
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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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phantombudgie
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Is that ... normal?  *Badum, Tish!*
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Fogmeister
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Amnesia10
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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. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Alexgadgetman
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Sounds very fishy to me 
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Fogmeister
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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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Alexgadgetman
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I had *beta* get going then
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rustybucket
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Oi! Don't be mean! Surely statistics is about not looking closely? _________________Jim
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Fogmeister
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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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rustybucket
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koli
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From my experience statics work in 99.99% of situations. It is the interpretation that usually fails.
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Alexgadgetman
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We certainly can chi to, but can't 'CATAGORICAL'ly guaran'T' success..
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adidan
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Anova bad joke.
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Alexgadgetman
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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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