Re: [Paddlewise] Rudder redux

From: Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 10:08:34 -0700
On 7/4/07, Nick Schade <nick_at_guillemot-kayaks.com> wrote:
>
> While these are averages, they aren't statistics.
>
> Statistics require multiple samples and they should be interspersed with
> each other.


This might surprise a lot of statisticians.


> Because, despite the fact that the data was taken over multiple days it
> amounts to just one incident.
>

According to this theory a person who collects daily readings from his
thermometer, barometer, hydrometer and hygrometer every morning for 30 years
has only one incident.


Craig Jungers
Royal City, WA
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