Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

[southendmd]

Wordle 943 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩CRANE
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[southendmd]

Purple was more reasonable today.

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[Sason]

It has to do with the way data are (are we using "is" yet?) measured.

MEAN means average, MEDIAN means same number above and below, RANGE is how broadly the numbers range. You use different ones depending on what you're interested in calculating. I don't know what MODE is. I just spotted the first two, figured RANGE makes sense in that group, and somehow MODE got attached.

One time we were talking about this at work and a guy explained it by saying that if Bill Gates were to visit our newsroom, our average/MEAN net worth would all go up by millions of dollars. I of course said, "Well then, why don't we invite him?"

So MEAN would be if you add the net worths of everyone in the newsroom plus Bill Gates' then divide by the number of people involved. MEDIAN is, if there are 100 people involved, the amount that would put 50 people on Bill Gates' side. RANGE would be from the lowest net worth in the newsroom to Bill Gates' $120 billion.

Ok, thanks for explaining, Katy.

To me, all these terms have to do with statistics, so maybe you could use the word statistics instead of data set data?

[Sason]

Wordle 943 3/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ OUIJA
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 PROBE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STOLE

[Sason]

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[Front-Ranger]

So close to a two!

Wordle 943 3/6*

⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩   AISLE
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩  STYLE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STOLE

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Puzzle #221
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[CellarDweller]

Too many options!

Wordle 943 5/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 RATIO
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 STOKE
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 STONE
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 STOVE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STOLE

[CellarDweller]

Connections
Puzzle #221
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

[serious crayons]

To me, all these terms have to do with statistics, so maybe you could use the word statistics instead of data set data?

I don't really use the term "data set" myself, but statistics would be, like, 17% of people who see Brokeback Mountain become lifelong Brokies. Or, in a cute little town near here that became fashionable, the median home value has increased from $96,000 in 1990 to $739,000 in 2022 (from a website that for some reason does not adjust for inflation).

Or my favorite, which a friend has on his profile on Facebook, "People who confuse correlation with causation all die eventually." A personal favorite because I hate it when people confuse correlation with causation.

I guess in other words, data sets are a bunch of numbers, MEAN and MEDIAN are ways of calculating the relationships between those numbers, statistics are the information the calculations reveal.

[serious crayons]

Connections
Puzzle #221

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Wordle 943 2/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨SHIRT
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Yee-haw!