Re: mean vs average

On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:12:05 +0000, Ben A L Jemmett wrote:

> (The long way was the only way when it came to exams, though.  I scored
> 148/150 on Statistics I at A-level; where those two went has worried me
> ever since.  That was only eight years ago and I've forgotten most of it
> already :(  Oh well.)

I actually got to use the TI-83 on the exams.  In fact the calculator was
considered required for the course.  We had to do it the long way a couple
of times for the homework when we first hit the chapter on standard
deviation, but the rest of the way we could just use the calculator.  The
instructor said the importance of the class was to learn what the numbers
meant and how to apply them rather than to learn how to manually arrive at
the numbers.

-- 
Joe
"Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who
do."