Sketchy summary statistics

July 13, 2016

Statistics / humor

Ben Orlin of Math With Bad Drawings explains the pitfalls of using summary statistics — mean, median, and mode — to make decisions in life. Aggregates like these are meant as wideout overviews. Look deeper for details.

Americans get most of their alcohol from beer, but it’s not like that everywhere.

There is a fixed number of minutes during the day. Where do parents usually draw the time from?

We know that people are marrying later in life, but that’s not the only shift. The whole relationship timeline is stretching.

After looking at how much time we spent on daily activities in 2020, let’s look at when we spent our time.