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The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That said, if you wanted another acceptable alternative, you can also remove all outliers and likely return the curve back to normal.

I'm not sure I would call that "acceptable." I would be more likely to call it "destroying the interesting features of the data."

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Acceptable in the statistical sense. Normality is required by a lot of statistical tests, so it's done a lot. There are better ways to do it without losing important insights though, hence what I said later in that paragraph.