20 values, you take the one that falls in the 10th place.
To be very nitpicky, if you have an even number of values, you take the mean of the two middle ones. So for your example, you'd average the 10th and 11th values.
I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2006 7:34:33 am PDT #3956 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Oct 17, 2006 7:35:38 am PDT #3957 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, thank goodness tommyrot nitpicked before I had a chance to.
Thanks, I googled the title of the study and was able to get it. When all else fails...google.
Seriously.
sarameg - Oct 17, 2006 7:38:32 am PDT #3958 of 10001
Yeah, I tend to go with the close-enough shorthand a lot of the time because I'm usually dealing with a list of thousands and that one 0.000023 difference I don't care about. And the stupid*&#$*#! code I inherited is...well, stupid.
Allyson - Oct 17, 2006 7:40:18 am PDT #3959 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Whoot! Now bon bon's rank on the list of awesome people I know has edged up a notch.
See how I made that all about me? It's a gift.
§ ita § - Oct 17, 2006 7:42:41 am PDT #3960 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, sara. Good info.
Connie Neil - Oct 17, 2006 7:50:22 am PDT #3961 of 10001
brillig
I'm very surprised that the median age for females getting married in 1890 is so high. In my genealogy, most of the girls at that time period were married before 20.
edit: Unless that figure is counting all marriages, which includes widows remarrying.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 17, 2006 7:50:35 am PDT #3962 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Congrats bon bon!
I am now off to buy plastic hangers and see if I can find a usably slim light bulb that will still fit the socket of my hanging lamp.
sarameg - Oct 17, 2006 7:50:49 am PDT #3963 of 10001
Why am I impersonating computer support?! I am not computer support! Ask the guy sitting next to me!
(The problem is, they don't tend to explain stuff unless you corner them. And I'm being used as a proxy. Kind of annoying.)
Connie Neil - Oct 17, 2006 7:51:42 am PDT #3964 of 10001
brillig
they don't tend to explain stuff unless you corner them
It preservers our air of mystery.
sarameg - Oct 17, 2006 7:52:50 am PDT #3965 of 10001
It preservers our air of mystery.
It makes everyone here hate them, frankly.