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Zan_of_Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-04 11:21 AM
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19. L Coyote. A reminder -- not everyone has studied statistics in the last
ten years.

Your graphs are probably comprehensible to 5 or 10% of DUers.

Please please please.

Would you post the raw data graph first, then your standard deviation comparisons.

If you just showed the raw data, people can see for themselves what the correlation is -- they can eyeball it. It makes it real for those of us who took statistics back before electricity was invented, or never took it.

I guarantee that many people in Congress, the media and the courts will not grok standard deviation either.

Try it, and see if you get more people going "oooooo" and "aaaahhhhh".
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