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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
...as the 19th century British Prime Minister Disraeli said: "...Lies, damn lies and statistics!"
...bad data = "outliers" ie: beyond the normal distribution.
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And, of course, statistically, hauling loads heavier than Oprah are outside the realm of "normal" for a minivan, especially
my minivan.
Technically, I'm still following scientific method by eliminating those entries that would corrupt the basic data stream that is required in the fuel log, if one were to consider the fuel log a series of test data used to obtain a viable average.
Regardless, I'm not going to discuss it further, because it's pointless.
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I'd like to think that people might open their eyes at some point... instead, I find it more and more likely that I'll just close mine.
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(I do not want a better life. I want to be happy with the one I have now.)
