Comments on: On Outliers: What they represent, and why the Central Limit Theorem is Typically Off. http://daniellefong.com/2008/01/28/outliers-why-the-central-limit-theorem-is-typically-off/ a wick for ideas Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:54:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Drew Nelson http://daniellefong.com/2008/01/28/outliers-why-the-central-limit-theorem-is-typically-off/#comment-1196 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:42:39 +0000 http://einfall.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-1196 Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine
Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
They were renegades of their time and age
The mighty Renegades
(RATM)

From a human perspective, renegades (or outliers) are absolutely essential to the advancement of the human condition. Without people willing to challenge the status quo, society would be static. And even if you’re on the right tracks you’ll still get run over if you are not moving forward.

]]> By: Feminism & Masculism | The BlakeRivers Blog http://daniellefong.com/2008/01/28/outliers-why-the-central-limit-theorem-is-typically-off/#comment-620 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:21:03 +0000 http://einfall.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-620 [...] 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 http://daniellefong.com/2008/01/28/outliers-why-the-central-limit-theorem-is-typically-off/#comment-475 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:00:12 +0000 http://einfall.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-475 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 http://daniellefong.com/2008/01/28/outliers-why-the-central-limit-theorem-is-typically-off/#comment-471 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:58:05 +0000 http://einfall.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-471 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 http://daniellefong.com/2008/01/28/outliers-why-the-central-limit-theorem-is-typically-off/#comment-418 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:34:06 +0000 http://einfall.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-418 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 http://daniellefong.com/2008/01/28/outliers-why-the-central-limit-theorem-is-typically-off/#comment-314 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:55:38 +0000 http://einfall.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-314 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.

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