the.com/variability
The universe's way of saying the average never actually happens to anyone.
means The extent to which values in a set differ from one another or from the average.
from Traces to Latin 'variabilis' — 'changeable' — from 'variare,' to vary, diversify, or make different, itself rooted in 'varius,' meaning spotted, diverse, or mottled. The same root colors 'various' and 'variegated,' so the word's ancestry is literally about patchiness — a surface that refuses to be one uniform shade.
- not randomness
- predictable patterns can still be highly variable
- the real enemy
- consistency problems are usually variability problems in disguise
- statistics' obsession
- most of statistics exists just to measure this
- small samples lie
- low variability in tiny data is often an illusion