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    Framing Effects Entry #0518

    The reason an average framed as typical misleads

    The mean of a skewed distribution describes nobody in it. Calling it typical smuggles in a claim about the shape that was never checked.

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    The hidden part #0518

    A summary discards the shape. The adjective attached to it then asserts what the shape was, and adjectives are not auditable.

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