tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:271559 zeborah zeborah 2010-10-10T00:52:13Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:271559:74968 2010-10-10T00:52:13Z 2010-10-10T00:52:13Z public 3 The other day I heard about a survey run by an organisation that shall remain anonymous. It was about the use of mobile devices, and one of the questions was about which devices if any the participant used. For ease of analysis, the devices were coded to numbers, eg:<ol><li>iPhone</li><li>Blackberry</li><li>Android</li></ol>etc.<br /><br />Then, wanting to get the most information possible out of their data, the analysers calculated the standard deviation of these numbers.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=zeborah&ditemid=74968" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments