How Averages Can Trick You and Obscure the Truth
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What Is the Composition of the Underlying Numbers?
In every way that information gets compressed, you should at least be thinking, what is missing? Sometimes what's missing is ok. Sometimes that missing only serves to distract or. It's not meaningful. All of the numbers are very close, and we're just looking for something that describes how close they are. But when you detect that there's some kind of compression taking place, you should be asking, what exactly is happening? What am i missing? What is not here?
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