Reply to: Strange people, these business analysts

[NotAllThere]

Such a bad pun, and from a modal poster.

Ah, you're just skewed. Is your Kurtosis playing up?

[Scary]

What a median comment.




IGMC, as they say

Such a bad pun, and from a modal poster.

[d000hg]

Well, on average ....

What a median comment.




IGMC, as they say

[DS23]

even if you can't help being average.

[EternalOptimist]

Well, on average ....

dont be mean

[sasguru]

Geometric mean, or him being dumb. Which is most likely?

Well, on average ....

[NotAllThere]

There is more than 1 Std dev and as pointed out a Geometric mean so maybe he wasn't being dumb

Geometric mean, or him being dumb. Which is most likely?

[Scary]

I was talking to the Finnish project manager. She says that at school, she learned 3 different ways of rounding - truncation, up (or down), and .5 goes up and less than .5 goes down.

Apparently, in the US branch, they've 24 different rounding rules...

VB by default uses bankers rounding, which is annoying and catches a few people out (don't know if this has changed for VB.net).

[Bagpuss]

Currently developing a few report for a laboratory system. One of the reports requires the mean and std. dev. of a set of a results.

Just been asked by the business analyst who specified the report - "What formula are you using for calculating the mean and std. dev.".

There is more than 1 Std dev and as pointed out a Geometric mean so maybe he wasn't being dumb

[NotAllThere]

I was talking to the Finnish project manager. She says that at school, she learned 3 different ways of rounding - truncation, up (or down), and .5 goes up and less than .5 goes down.

Apparently, in the US branch, they've 24 different rounding rules...

[scooterscot]

But has he ever done stats without a computer? Or without a calculator for that matter?

Many years' experience with the Yanks tells me you have to spell things out for them.

Yes, during me masters in operational research...

[Sysman]

Maybe geometric or arithmetic mean?

ETA: although I'm sure he could work it out by looking at the numbers

But has he ever done stats without a computer? Or without a calculator for that matter?

Many years' experience with the Yanks tells me you have to spell things out for them.

[Scary]

Currently developing a few report for a laboratory system. One of the reports requires the mean and std. dev. of a set of a results.

Just been asked by the business analyst who specified the report - "What formula are you using for calculating the mean and std. dev.".

Maybe geometric or arithmetic mean?

ETA: although I'm sure he could work it out by looking at the numbers

[darmstadt]

Said B.A. is from the subcontinent and has been resident in the US for over ten years.

Is there any difference?

[NotAllThere]

Said B.A. is from the subcontinent and has been resident in the US for over ten years. I don't think he knows what sarcasm is.

I've got him trained to the point where he doesn't just say - "the results are wrong", but rather tells me what results he expects and what he got.

Now I've just got to get him to explain why he expects the results he has.

Ah well - the downside of taking junior work. Still getting ++senior rate though.