The mean is almost always the most useful single descriptive statistic in engineering and management. There's a weird meme that it's only useful for normal data, which is super misguided. 1/
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But is it really useful to know that tomorrow’s weather will be 65° compared to knowing that it’ll vary between 60° & 70°
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It's concise! temperatures vary by time, location, altitude, volume and all sorts of things, right down to the brownian scale. It would be incomprehensible and impractical to describe the momentum of every molecule.
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