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yummyfajitas on July 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Most Shocking Result in World Cup History

Statistics can only describe the average outcome...

Um, no. Please go read any statistics tutorial containing the word "standard deviation" to see one example of why you are wrong.

saganus on July 9, 2014 [–]

I think he meant average in the sense of generality, not in the sense of the average function.

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