Talk:Tyranny of averages
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Raison d'être
[edit]I created this entry because, while searching for le mot juste to xref to from another entry, I searched for the phrase and found that it was an existing (if not extremely common) term with presence on wikipedia. --Belg4mit 20:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
This isn't math
[edit]This is not math. The term skewness covers the contents of this article and more from a math point of view. It's utterly trivial that the distribution of income in this world is skew, nothing new there. Aastrup 22:04, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- It's as much math as law of averages. Both concern the ramifications of the application of math. Income has nothing to do with anything, you're ranting about a simple example. Skewness might be the mathematical term, and an appropriate xref, but that entry doesn't really treat the same material as this does/is intended to. --Belg4mit 22:47, 31 July 2007 (UTC)