Fun statistics quiz: if you're trying to make a Twitter quiz with four options to estimate some central tendency of a distribution, what's the optimal strategy for choosing the buckets? Does that change if you know the distribution is normal? Based on your prior? https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1477351881366245380 …
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Also, I'd be shocked if this underlying distribution was really normal.
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It’s bimodal! Had the slight suspicion it might be somewhat bimodal but much more so than I suspected. But excellent question really, and I did think a while about it given I had only four bins!
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