Okay, this has nothing to do with how well any of us learn GLM, but, as a former eating disorder research assistant (Chris, feel free to jump in), I think Dr. Clements' hubby's standards for "average" are, wow.
Monica Sales is average? (Face may not be perfect, but great Dancing With the Stars body).
An actress/comedian who's "bit" is being "average" and talking about the frustrations as such: Genine Garofalo.
Genine's talked about how she's always 30 pounds heavier between movies, they give her parts with it in her contract that she first has to lose the pounds, and then "she sells out" (her words) and loses this weight to secure the part.
I also love her comedian act that talks about women eating muffin tops as being a sign of having an eating disorder (as she rips off a muffin top and bites into it).
Anyways, averages in stats are more about mean, mode, median (or actually just means), but, there go my morning thoughts.
Hope all's well in "journal analyzing land."
(The profs at Fuller have a lot of cool empirical studies they've published.)
God bless to all (big, small, gorgeous, "ugly", and average),
-Ramona
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Eric's never watched Dancing with the Stars, and he was really thinking only about the face. In fact, the picture he saw when he made his selection was ONLY her face.
This does, however, bring up an important point. As I said in at least one of the sections, I sometimes deliberately choose examples that are NOT ones that people in the class are researching because of the potential for the substance of the example to interfere with people's ability to take in the statistical piece.
That clearly happened here, and I am sorry for it. Should it happen to you, please let me know. You are welcome to express your concerns in person, by phone, or by email.
My frustration was not really with anything Mari or Mari's husband presented, but rather with our society; but that's part of what psychology investigates.
If e-mail was a more appropriate forum for my comments, I apologize.
I thought the answer would be published on the blog, given the ground rules; thank you for clarifying where we can say what.
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