Erfworld 158 - tBfGK 145

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That reminds me of a co-worker at a prior company. He was a statistical analyst, and not terribly customer oriented. He would provide figures of average disconnect numbers for our NAS servers in a meeting designed to allow the customer to beat us up over poor numbers and attempt to cajole us into constantly raising the bar. When he was asked why certain sites were below average he would often reply with something like "These sites are below average because half of the sites perform better than they do. That is what average means." I always had to stifle a chuckle at that.

Technically, what he was describing is the median. It is possible to have all sites performing equally, and thus equal to the average, say ...

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I'll go now.