[R] WAAAYYY OFF TOPIC -- For Statistics Buffs only

Bert Gunter bgunter.4567 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 15:56:29 CET 2018


A really nice example of an instance where an "outlier" was the whole story
scientifically and hiding it with statistical summaries, here an "average"
of some sort, lost the science.  Moral: "Look at your data and think."
(Ellis Ott)

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/proxima-centauri-flare-may-have-fried-earths-nearest-exoplanet?tgt=nr

Cheers,
Bert

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