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by Someone
902 days ago
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> p(12) sits at 50%, of course it will be the mean! Technically, “the mean is 12” does not follow at all from “p(12) sits at 50%”. “p(12) sits at 50%” implies the median (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median) is 12, and that can differ from the mean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean) of the distribution, and the difference can be quite large. For example, if that list were to continue p(13) = 0.44277496045533604
p(14) = 0.44277496045533604
p(15) = 0.44277496045533604
p(16) = 0.44277496045533604
p(17) = 0.44277496045533604
p(18) = 0.44277496045533604
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p(1000) = 0.44277496045533604
P(1001]) = 0
the about 44% that makes it to 13 also will make it to 1000, and the mean value will be a bit more than 442.77496045533604 (the contribution of that 44.2%)If, on the other hand, it were to continue p(13) = 0.44277496045533604
p(14) = 0.0
No result would be higher than 13, and the mean would be lower than 12. |
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