Saving the mean

We are better at statistics than we normally get credit for. Greater statistical literacy is still important, since more data is being used to persuade, but our overall understanding has gotten better. One example of this improvement is that most people reading analysis will know that the arithmetic mean can be shifted by excessively large …

Uncertainty in Game Data

We do not know how useful most games analysis is. More developers and analysts are sharing their analysis publicly but regularly miss one measure that would make the results significantly more helpful. This measure is the variability of the estimate. It helps to think about what is being measured when applying statistics. Most of the …