Bart Kosko on the Sample Mean
Jan 2, 02:00 PM
Remember my post about how averages suck? It appears that Bart Kosko, an information scientist at USC, agrees with me. And he says it a lot more eloquently than I did. Apparently, if he’s forced to use one number to represent a data set, he will use the median rather than the mean.
So again, if you’re logging aggregate data about your game to a file or a database, please please please include max/min/average/median/mode instead of just an average!
