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Originally Posted by jmitr
...Not as ancient...threw up on their counter and left the store...
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Ancient? Wait 'til you get my age! Just wanted to let you know I rep'd you with a thanks for the laugh your story gave me.
Well, we now have over 30 ages (30 is a statistical rule of thumb for initial survey). So I tapped them into column A of an Excel worksheet on my Vogue, copied col'm A to col'm B, and sorted B into numerical order. That way, it's easy to come up with some of the various statistical 'averages' such as the median, mode, and of course the mean (sum divided by number of items). But before this, I tapped in my own age, even though it's what's called an "outlier" in stat books, and has an unfairly large effect upon the mean.
Oh, how old am I? Let me just say that at my last Bday, family members sang the following lyrics as a karaoke version of the Beatles tune from Sgt. Pepper played:
"...Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm..."
Okay, here are the cold hard numbers and results (so far):
{15,15,16,18,18,19,21,21,22,23,24,24,27,28,29,29,3 0,30,31,32,33,34,35,35,35,37,38,39,39,43,44,44,64}
Median = 30
Mode = 35
Middle 50% => 22-35
Mean = 992/33 = 30.0606...
Edit - After a few more taps, Excel Mobile provides a nice view of our ages. We have more and more Vogue users as you go from the teens, through the 20s, max-ing out in the 30s, falling off in the 40s, and finally becoming almost non-existant for higher ages (other than my old self). Try getting something like this view with any of those new Android devices! Of course, this function may become available for them too, but when?
