02/13/07 Analytical Summary of The Median isn't the Message by Stephan Jay Gould Gould's "The Median isn't the Message" is an essay about Stephan Jay Gould's experience with cancer and the strategies he employed to overcome them. He comments on the necessity for a positive state of mind (164) as well as a full understanding of the information one is reading (165). These necessities lead to a pinnacle point: Gould insists we are not average and therefore, our fate will be anything but average. Therefore…
Aristotle defines virtue in terms of a mean or median. On one end is the excess and on the other the deficiency with the median found somewhere between the two. A sizeable portion of the book is dedicated to discussing these virtues and their excess and deficiency as well as the sphere the virtue falls under. While a majority of the virtues have vices on either side and are found through trial and error somewhere between them, the virtue of temperance does not have this quality and is therefore more…
Who is Stephan Hawking? Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England. From an early age, he showed a passion for science and the sky. At age 21, while studying cosmology at Cambridge, Hawking was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Despite his debilitating illness, he has done ground-breaking work in physics and cosmology and his several books strive to make science accessible to everyone. Research on Black Holes Groundbreaking findings from another young cosmologist…
Statistics: Median, Mode and Frequency Distribution Given a list of numbers, The median is the “middle value” of a list. It is the smallest number such that at least half the numbers in the list are no greater than it. If the list has an odd number of entries, the median is the middle entry in the list after sorting the list into increasing order. If the list has an even number of entries, the median is equal to the sum of the two middle (after sorting) numbers…
Gould mentions in the paper is a population that does not undergo selection or adaptation. In this type of population it is possible for the alleles to differentiate and then fix for different alleles. The next adaptationist programme mentioned in Gould's paper is the method that observes an organism as a “whole ” instead of breaking down them down into separate traits. This type of programme was beneficial in that it gave rise to ideas like allometry, material compensation and pleiotropy, The third…
1.Mean and median are used as the primary measurement. Mode is seen in the first table and table 3 Appropriate measure of central tendency? Absolutely, the mean is clearly stated and many variations are introduced. Comparisons between years are used to show increases or decreases within the infant mortality rate. 2. How were measures of variation used in the study? Amongst the data collected several variations were introduced. These variations within cultures including Whites, Blacks…
Mean, Mode and Median Ungrouped and Grouped Data Ungrouped Data refers to raw data that has been ‘processed’; so as to determine frequencies. The data, along with the frequencies, are presented individually. Grouped Data refers to values that have been analysed and arranged into groups called ‘class’. The classes are based on intervals – the range of values – being used. It is from these classes, are upper and lower class boundaries found. Mean Mean The ‘Mean’ is the total of all the values…
Mean, Mode and Median Ungrouped and Grouped Data Ungrouped Data refers to raw data that has been ‘processed’; so as to determine frequencies. The data, along with the frequencies, are presented individually. Grouped Data refers to values that have been analysed and arranged into groups called ‘class’. The classes are based on intervals – the range of values – being used. It is from these classes, are upper and lower class boundaries found. Mean Mean The ‘Mean’ is the total of all the values…
Mean, median, and mode are differing values that furnish information regarding a set of observations. The mean is used when one desires to determine the average value for data ranked in intervals. The median is used to learn the middle of graded information, and the mode is used to summarize non-numeric data. The mean is equal to the amount of all the data in a set divided by the number of values in that set. It is typically used with continuous figures. The result will probably not be one of the…
Mean, Median, Mode, and Range Mean, median, and mode are three kinds of "averages". There are many "averages" in statistics, but these are, I think, the three most common, and are certainly the three you are most likely to encounter in your pre-statistics courses, if the topic comes up at all. The "mean" is the "average" you 're used to, where you add up all the numbers and then divide by the number of numbers. The "median" is the "middle" value in the list of numbers. To find the median, your…