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The shock of the mean
Author(s) -
Raper Simon
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01087.x
Subject(s) - shock (circulatory) , history , computer science , psychology , medicine
Simon Raper recounts the history of the arithmetic mean, why scientists of the past rejected the idea, and why their concerns are still relevant in the ongoing struggle to communicate statistical concepts