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smackfu
on July 14, 2011
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Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?
Unevenly sized buckets give weird data anyways. How would you show it on a graph? The buckets should be uniform, except for catch-alls at the ends, then you choose how to display them afterwards.
lojack
on July 14, 2011
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> How would you show it on a graph?
A relative frequency density histogram
eru
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You could argue for uniformity in the logarithmic domain just as well.
fhars
on July 14, 2011
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But the buckets in the poll are even more ubequal on a logarithmic scale than on a linear scale.
eru
on July 14, 2011
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Yes. Logarithmic was just an example.
jules
on July 14, 2011
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Mathematically you're right that every choice of buckets is arbitrary. But with same size buckets it is easier for
humans
to see what's going on.
graywh
on July 15, 2011
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Statistically speaking, using buckets is like throwing away 1/3 to 1/2 of your data. There was a salary survey on here a couple of months ago.
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