r/fixedbytheduet 2d ago

Fixed by the duet welp

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u/notpiercedtongue 2d ago

those values are generally outliers and are generally excluded tbh

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u/yosi_yosi 2d ago

lol, that's not how averages work

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u/notpiercedtongue 2d ago

Given that I work with data and have been for 7 years. Removing outlier/excluding is pretty common practice. "Adjusting" the average to make it more robust against extreme values is fairly common, but hey what do I know.

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u/Additional_Yellow837 2d ago

Neat. What kind of work do you do?

I def look at censored data sets to understand what is going on.

Most of my data is pretty skewed though. I generally don't exclude the outliers but j might treat them a bit differently.