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Careful when reporting a mean of an ordinal categorical variable #195#196

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oldoc63 commented Oct 21, 2021

Note how this is different from the mean you calculated in the last checkpoint. While the mean diameter is about 11.27 inches (which would be categorized as “Medium-Large”), the mean category index is about 1.97, which is between 'Medium (3-10in)' and 'Medium-Large (10-18in)'.

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