Tag Archives : Statistics

What we miss when we focus on the average

It’s tempting to focus on averages when we think about data, but the world is a lot messier than those numbers can make it out to be. So what could we gain if we shifted our attention to the out...

The Myth of Average

This talk starts with a fantastic real-world example of the cost of using ‘the average’ in the US military and the huge benefit of instead designing “to the edges” which is in the first 5 minu...