How old is everyone on this forum? - Page 8

glatt · 09-09-2005, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ashke

This feels like I'm cheating on my post count but...

If you feel like that is cheating, I wonder how you feel about the word association thread?

ashke · 09-09-2005, 09:15 AM

Hmm, you have a point there. But I updated this on my first list on page 5 already. So it feels like I'm repeating myself. Whereas at word association... ^_^;;;; it's not?

My small posting philosophy.

BigV · 09-09-2005, 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

If you feel like that is cheating, I wonder how you feel about the word association thread?

You rang?

BigV · 09-09-2005, 12:04 PM

Also, (as he pads his post count), ashke, thank you for including me on your list. A couple of questions: 1 -- what does your user title mean? and 2 -- could you explain the difference in mean age and median age and why they're two different things and yet are the same number. Pretend you're explaining it to a six year old, because in the following forty I didn't learn anything new about statistics. Thanks in advance.

wolf · 09-09-2005, 12:12 PM

Mean is the average you learned to do in school. That means that you add up all the numbers and divide by the number of numbers.

The median is the actual middle. The median is a more stable measure than the "average" because the average gets pulled +/- by extremely high and low values (like Buddha ...) If the mean and the median are the same, that usually means that you have a nice bell curve-y distribution.

You don't want to know about the mode. You just don't.

ashke · 09-09-2005, 12:25 PM

@_@ I just went back to the median formula. Ergh, I'm wrong! The median age now should be 36 instead of 35.

I suppose I could add mode since it'll make up the 3 Ms. Mode is the value that occurs most often.

BigV: My user title means "How are you?" in Chinese.

BigV · 09-09-2005, 12:53 PM

wolf: Thank you. That's very helpful.

ashke: Thank you, also very helpful. Your English is impeccable, can you render your title into phonetic English? I'd like to know how to say "How are you?" in Chinese. But the character set there utterly defeats me.

Trilby · 09-09-2005, 02:23 PM

Could everybody just stop wondering about how to say shit in Chinese? For ONCE? Everytime some poor Chinese dude or dudette (yet to see) saunters by here everyone hails them for interpretations! It's really quite embarrassing. Learn your own Chinese! They've obviously learned a bit of English! Sheesh!

BigV · 09-09-2005, 02:38 PM

Hey, Brianna:

Look it up. Or, you could ask ashke to translate it for you.

09-09-2005, 02:56 PM

What's up with you, lately, Brianna? BigV was just expressing a friendly intrest in Aske's language. When I tried to make peace with you on the "learned helplessness" thread and said I'd back you and that you were just a DIFFERENT sort of TOUGH girl then Wolf, you wouldn't have any of it.

Chill out. Please?

xoxoxoBruce · 09-09-2005, 05:43 PM

She's probably on a diet.

Hobbs · 09-09-2005, 06:44 PM

I noticed that TW hasn't come clean with his age yet. I just courious. No one I know under the age of 60 uses the phrase "devil in the detail." I could be wrong...I'm just saying here....

09-09-2005, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Hobbs

I noticed that TW hasn't come clean with his age yet. I just courious. No one I know under the age of 60 uses the phrase "devil in the detail." I could be wrong...I'm just saying here....

Well, I have been known to use it, but I hate to infringe on tw's copyright of the phrase.

Hobbs · 09-09-2005, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by marichiko

Well, I have been known to use it, but I hate to infringe on tw's copyright of the phrase.

Hmmm....53. Not quite 60, but dangerously close. :p

09-09-2005, 10:17 PM

And 41 is getting on up there toward 53. Reflections in your side view mirrors are closer than they appear. You'll be up where I am in no time at all, son!

09-09-2005, 12:04 PM	#109
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Also, (as he pads his post count), ashke, thank you for including me on your list. A couple of questions: 1 -- what does your user title mean? and 2 -- could you explain the difference in mean age and median age and why they're two different things and yet are the same number. Pretend you're explaining it to a six year old, because in the following forty I didn't learn anything new about statistics. Thanks in advance. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

09-09-2005, 12:12 PM	#110
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Mean is the average you learned to do in school. That means that you add up all the numbers and divide by the number of numbers. The median is the actual middle. The median is a more stable measure than the "average" because the average gets pulled +/- by extremely high and low values (like Buddha ...) If the mean and the median are the same, that usually means that you have a nice bell curve-y distribution. You don't want to know about the mode. You just don't. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-09-2005, 12:25 PM	#111
ashke Don't look at me! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Singapore Posts: 288	@_@ I just went back to the median formula. Ergh, I'm wrong! The median age now should be 36 instead of 35. I suppose I could add mode since it'll make up the 3 Ms. Mode is the value that occurs most often. BigV: My user title means "How are you?" in Chinese. Last edited by ashke; 09-09-2005 at 12:32 PM.

09-09-2005, 12:53 PM	#112
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	wolf: Thank you. That's very helpful. ashke: Thank you, also very helpful. Your English is impeccable, can you render your title into phonetic English? I'd like to know how to say "How are you?" in Chinese. But the character set there utterly defeats me. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

09-09-2005, 02:23 PM	#113
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Could everybody just stop wondering about how to say shit in Chinese? For ONCE? Everytime some poor Chinese dude or dudette (yet to see) saunters by here everyone hails them for interpretations! It's really quite embarrassing. Learn your own Chinese! They've obviously learned a bit of English! Sheesh! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

09-09-2005, 09:15 AM	#107
ashke Don't look at me! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Singapore Posts: 288	Hmm, you have a point there. But I updated this on my first list on page 5 already. So it feels like I'm repeating myself. Whereas at word association... ^_^;;;; it's not? My small posting philosophy.

09-09-2005, 02:38 PM	#114
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Hey, Brianna: Look it up. Or, you could ask ashke to translate it for you. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

09-09-2005, 02:56 PM	#115
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	What's up with you, lately, Brianna? BigV was just expressing a friendly intrest in Aske's language. When I tried to make peace with you on the "learned helplessness" thread and said I'd back you and that you were just a DIFFERENT sort of TOUGH girl then Wolf, you wouldn't have any of it. Chill out. Please?

09-09-2005, 05:43 PM	#116
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	She's probably on a diet. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-09-2005, 06:44 PM	#117
Hobbs Professor for the school of ass-clownery Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Surprise! Posts: 404	I noticed that TW hasn't come clean with his age yet. I just courious. No one I know under the age of 60 uses the phrase "devil in the detail." I could be wrong...I'm just saying here.... __________________ That's it! Send in the chimps!

09-09-2005, 10:17 PM	#120
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	And 41 is getting on up there toward 53. Reflections in your side view mirrors are closer than they appear. You'll be up where I am in no time at all, son!

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