Statistics for the Rest of Us: Mastering the Art of Understanding Data Without Math Skills (Advanced Thinking Skills Book 4)

We are often wrong, in other words, about how the world works when we rely just on what we hear or personally experience. While the methodology of good data science is often intuitive, the results are frequently counterintuitive.

Now, identify the estimations (both in time and people) that were at least one standard deviation removed from the average—that is, those values outside the broadband of consensus (hence the name of the technique). These are the outliers.

basic statistical processing with either proprietary

When you are told that something is an average you still don’t know very much about it unless you can find out which of the common kinds of average it is—mean, median, or mode.