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All you need to know about numbers:
Content last updated: 24/08/2006
All you need to know about numbers:
So you think you’re pretty average do you? But you might actually be a mean or even a median…there's nothing average about averages.
It's unfairly been dismissed as the "dismal science", but approached with an open mind, there's a world of discovery hiding behind the word economics.
What happens next? And in ten years time? To predict the future, you need to get to grips with probability.
Pity the statistician - all that time working with numbers, and they can't even be sure if what they work with are an "it" or a "them". They're confusing things, statistics.
Content last updated: 24/08/2006
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