Deviation From the Mean, Part Three
The focus of this blog is to examine, ideas, events, and personal development issues that are outside of our normal everyday experience. Or at least that should be outside of our daily experience given a logical rational world. Thus the title of the blog, Deviation From the Mean. I am most interested in events and ideas that are extraordinary deviations from normal and how they develop, not everyday happenings.
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Once again it is that time of year. The Christmas, Hanukkah, and year end holidays are rapidity approaching and it’s time for Seasons greetings and to make merry.
Unfortunately, for many adults the time for “making merry” brings on symptoms of depression which can ruin the holidays or even worst. In a few conditions become so severe that suicide seems to be the only way out. This degree of severe depression is roughly fours times as common in males as females.
This is a preview of
Overcoming Depression and the Holiday Blues
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Read the full post (1323 words, estimated 5:18 mins reading time) Posted in Human Behavior
According to Wikipedia the way those involved in probability analysis and statistical analysis, like scientists and actuaries, for example, explain the mean and standard deviations from the mean is as follows:
“At least 75% of the values in any population are at most two standard deviations away from the mean (see Chebyshev’s inequality). The actual percentage depends on the distribution, for example approximately 95% if the population has a normal distribution.
A large standard deviation indicates that the data points are far from the mean and a small standard deviation indicates that they are clustered closely around the mean.
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