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maxerickson on Feb 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unlearning descriptive statistics

With a small number of categories a full summary of the data easily fits into text. It might still be desirable to report a summary statistic, but omitting the totals for 2 or 3 categories and reporting a summary statistic is pretty sloppy.

closed on Feb 1, 2017 [–]

> With a small number of categories a full summary of the data easily fits into text.

That's fair. In my experience, summary measures are often calculated at many levels of an analysis, not just the final reporting.

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