The dark side of an operations researcher. Or how operations research can be a funny subject. Wanna join me?.
…because is red.
This won’t be as cryptic as it seems for those of you not aliens to Matrix universe. As Neo, I was 30 when decided to take the red pill. Sometimes I feel like I’m returning to Matrix…, but it’s just a nightmare; sometimes I wonder if I shouldn’t taken it and have had the blue one…
Nah… that’s bollocks!. I feel awesome.
Recently I had my private nightmare trying to explain…, well, better defend our poor ‘average’; it is most probably the most used and abused statistical measure, and is not always well employed. For starters, the biggest confussion between it and the ‘mean’ in probabilistic contexts; then, some misunderstandings on the use of the ‘median’, an ‘average’ ‘mean’ s cousin. Following with the lack of sampling information (type of sampling, sampling error, confidence, variance), and finishing with this post that hasn’t closed the gap between previous knowledge and current knowledge on the matter, for sure…, but that’s another history.
