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Unlearning descriptive statistics 343 stdbrouw Feb 1 2017

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http://debrouwere.org/2017/02/01/unlearning-descriptive-statistics/ news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541589 andy_wrote

Feb 1 2017

For readers who are OK with some math, I recommend John Myles White's eye-opening post about means, medians, and modes: http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/modes-medi... He describes these summary descriptive stats in terms of what penalty function they minimize: mean minimizes L2, median minimizes L1, mode minimizes L0. A single-number statistic is _going_ to leave things out, so if you must boil things down into one number, or even a few numbers, you're going to lose something that you had in the raw data. This is why I find claims along the lines of "statistics don't tell the whole story" a little bemusing - of course they don't, the very definition of a statistic is a summarization of data that is easier to work with. The question is what data is kept or lost, or more generally what importance we place on different aspects of the raw data such that it's reflected in our descriptive statistics. The lessons for non-technical people who want to communicate with descriptive statistics are to recognize that summarization is inherent in the nature of any descriptive statistic, that they are thereby opinionated in some way in terms of what they've preserved and what they've left out, and to recognize whether those opinions are appropriate for your purpose. johnmyleswhite

Feb 1 2017

Glad you enjoyed that post so much. It really is a shame that we do such a bad job of teaching students about the inherent subjectivity of descriptive statistics and let students leave their courses with dangerous ideas about the existence of a Holy Grail statistic that will solve all of their problems. nkkar



Feb 1 2017

Your followup post (http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/using-norm...) is excellent. Thank you! johnmyleswhite

Feb 1 2017

Thanks! I really should have finished and written the post about the SVD as well. One of these days...

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