From: Joel Neely <joel.neely@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T04:33:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23337] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

But, unfortunately, not true.

Half of all X are below the *median*, but not below the average
unless there's a totally symmetric distribution, which rarely
happens in nature.

For the collection of scores

    50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 100

90% are below average.

-jn-

brucedickey wrote:
> 
> Good one.
> 
> > From: Ned Konz
> >
> > Oddly enough, half of all programmers are below average...

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