Comments on: On Outliers: What they represent, and why the Central Limit Theorem is Typically Off.

By: Feminism & Masculism | The BlakeRivers Blog

Feminism & Masculism | The BlakeRivers Blog — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:21:03 +0000

[...] who doesn’t fit the artificial cookie-cutter mold we make for sex and gender; outliers on the bell curve may be infrequent but are no less important. I have heard concerns and grievances from unexpected [...]

By: Danielle Fong

Danielle Fong — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:00:12 +0000

Dr Zen,

The central limit theorem might be about the averages of populations, but if it’s about averages we can multiply the average by the number of elements and arrive at a sum, and then the sum can be interpreted as the result of a series of linearly independent influences.

By: Berkana

Berkana — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:58:05 +0000

Have you read Per Bak’s “How Nature Works”? The book has a very interesting perspective on outliers and the impact they have, approaching the problem from the perspective of inverse-frequency laws, power laws, and Zipf’s law.

By: Dr Zen

Dr Zen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:34:06 +0000

Yeahbut the central limit theorem says something about populations. You’re basically like a small child told that the average height is 5 11, or whatever, who goes, yeah but my daddy’s eight foot tall. It’s not meaningful in terms of the population that there is an eight-foot-tall man.

By: Shivam

Shivam — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:55:38 +0000

The first reaction after reading this is a smile on my face :)

I graduated in Mathematics and I am working as a decision-scientist for a leading FMCG.

That should explain the smile.