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<b>Word For The Day, Wednesday, August 8, 2012--mean, median, mode</b></font><p>
August 8, 2012 | TruthShallSetYouFree

Posted on 08/08/2012 4:10:07 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, August 8, 2012--mean, median

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language

abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

(in statistics)

mean (or arithmetic mean) =

the mean obtained

by adding several quantities together and dividing the sum by the number of

quantities: the arithmetic mean of 1, 5, 2, and 8 is 4.

median =

the middle number in a given sequence of numbers, taken as

the average of the two middle numbers when the sequence has an even number of

numbers: 4 is the median of 1, 3, 4, 8, 9.

Origin of mean:

before 900; Middle English mene, aphetic variant ( see y-) of imene, Old English gemǣne; cognate with Dutch gemeen,

German gemein common, Gothic gamains in common; compare common

Origin of median:

1535–45; < Latin mediānus in the middle. See medium, -an

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To: tioga; secret garden
she looks like a commie in blue...and old.

She only needs something new and something borrowed to remarry after she dumps Slick Willie.

41 posted on 08/08/2012 6:22:54 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (I didn't write this by myself. Obama helped me. Everyone helped me.)
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To: xsmommy

I have to laugh, she started zumba to lose weight, but it’s so intense she EATS afterwards and hasn’t lost much. She has toned up a lot though.


42 posted on 08/08/2012 6:37:55 AM PDT by tioga
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
all right, I'm coughing one up but I expect a grade above the median and don't be mean about it!


43 posted on 08/08/2012 6:42:12 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

This is coercion. Okay A++++.


44 posted on 08/08/2012 6:54:28 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (I didn't write this by myself. Obama helped me. Everyone helped me.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Mean, Median, Mode

The "Three Stooges" of statistics....

(Nyuk, nyuk ;)

45 posted on 08/08/2012 7:04:53 AM PDT by mikrofon (Welcome to the WFTD Moderatorship[?])
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Killed on the median
46 posted on 08/08/2012 7:07:21 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: mikrofon

A+++
Thanks for the welcome.


47 posted on 08/08/2012 7:22:24 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (I didn't write this by myself. Obama helped me. Everyone helped me.)
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To: NeoCaveman

A+++
I guess the median was the message.


48 posted on 08/08/2012 7:24:36 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (I didn't write this by myself. Obama helped me. Everyone helped me.)
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To: xsmommy

I can’t understand a word of it and I feel sorry for the girl on the left, trying to keep up. My sister does zumba with a friend and enjoys it too. I’ll stick to running in the park and swimming.


49 posted on 08/08/2012 7:30:12 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

the girl on the left is clearly the student and the other one the teacher. She does pretty well for a gringa, the one one left i mean.


50 posted on 08/08/2012 8:00:14 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

The teacher is definitely more fluid in her movements. And that class looks a lot less painful than fencing!


51 posted on 08/08/2012 8:23:56 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

well the uncoordinated wouldn’t do well at either fencing or zumba, i imagine. amazing to me that the girlies in the video do not appear to be sweating. in our class everyone is streaming sweat, and that’s with several fans mounted in the room, and me standing right next to one!


52 posted on 08/08/2012 8:42:18 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Nice demo, I may have to cave in and give zumba a try. I’ll go for the water one first, till I get some moves down. LOL


53 posted on 08/08/2012 9:11:15 AM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy

Yikes. Maybe we should just call off the election right now.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/romney-spokes-says-priorities-usa-ad-subject-would-have-had-health-care-under-romneys-mass-plan/


54 posted on 08/08/2012 10:09:22 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

To spin dismal unemployment
Obama’s minions make free
With lots of creative math
And get a mean of 8.3

Then to justify more taxes
They stir the numbers brew
To get a median of $200,000
As the “rich” guys to screw

The Roman mob keeps drinking
The koolaid of party choice
While the ‘rat party convention
Will give Jimmy Carter a voice


55 posted on 08/08/2012 10:31:09 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

A++++ Nice job, Tex. The creative “math” that the Obamites are doing pales in comparison to the hatchet job they are doing on Romney. “Shameless” doesn’t even begin to cover it.


56 posted on 08/08/2012 10:34:54 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (I didn't write this by myself. Obama helped me. Everyone helped me.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Thank you! It is really too bad that Reid voiced his fantasy on the protected senate floor-if he had done it elsewhere, he might have ended up being sued.


57 posted on 08/08/2012 10:51:10 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5
I'm pretty sure that's why he made the statement on the Senate floor. Of course, that was practically complimentary compared to the Romney murdered my wife ad.
58 posted on 08/08/2012 10:58:40 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (I didn't write this by myself. Obama helped me. Everyone helped me.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

The most reprehensible part of that ad is not just the subject matter, it is using a person consumed with grief to place imaginary blame to further someone else’s agenda. I know very well that it is tempting to be bitter and want someone to blame for the death of a life partner, but encouraging that sort of thing is just wrong.


59 posted on 08/08/2012 11:11:23 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: xsmommy
May i also observe that the pantsuited one assumed the MALE role in that type of dance

Well, She's usually stepping out in the Huma'd air.

60 posted on 08/08/2012 12:36:58 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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