If median performance (50th %) is "everyday performance", what is 95th percentile? "Worst-case" or "outlier" imply less common than reality
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@wycats Doesn't mean you can't sell to people who don't know what a distribution is, just that teaching them is separate from labels. -
@dhh yeah totally. Nudging them away from bell curve, especially since all competitors use mean, is hard but important. -
@dhh if you tell someone "the mean is 100ms" they believe it's bounded close to that. "median" doesn't change a thing. -
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@pitosalas@dhh yeah, but it hides the difference between normal distribution outliers and lognormal. -
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@wycats Maybe just let the numbers speak. If you're this deep and don't know what a distribution is, then maybe you're in the wrong place. -
@dhh I dunno. People have a deep, evolutionary belief that they're looking at a normal distribution that is hard to dispell. - 1 more reply
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