Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is why the concept of statistical outlier and standard deviation exists.
Had I seen something like this in any analysis I would either assume some fault in the measurement (either reading or technical) or error in punching the data. Then ignored the result if it couldn’t be reproduced, but leave it in the raw data/graph/figure and explain the exlution.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Heck, even opting for median age over the mean would work in this case!