Mixed unit morale

[Blitz]

I can't believe you numbskulls have to argue about the definition of average. Any fourth grader knows that to find the average add em up and divide by the number of things.

[ July 18, 2004, 08:56: Message edited by: Blitz ]

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Blitz:
Any fourth grader knows that to find the average add em up and divide by the number of things.

They wait until *FOURTH* grade to teach you that now? Man, the educational system is really decaying. I had no idea it had gotten this bad.

I think the issue at hand here is what "add 'em up" and "number of things" is. Nagot must have been thinking that the set of things was {Militia, Emerald Guard}, and that therefore, the relative numbers were a "weighting", whereas I was thinking the set was more like {Militia, Militia, Militia, ...., Emerald Guard}, and thus it was not weighted.

[Blitz]

Well it would be pretty stupid if you could "fix" a whole group of elephants by throwing in one elite unit. I think common sense would dictate that it is done the other way.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Blitz:
I can't believe you numbskulls have to argue about the definition of average. Any fourth grader knows that to find the average add em up and divide by the number of things.

O Wise One, maybe someday you'll have to learn Japanese and will face exactly that kind of problems when posting on Japanese forums.

Anyway, you're right. Technically I'm not a 4th grader, or 27th, or even 1st, since I never had the (mis?)fortune to follow courses in the US educational system.

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Originally posted by Blitz:
I can't believe you numbskulls have to argue about the definition of average. Any fourth grader knows that to find the average add em up and divide by the number of things.

Well, that is one average, often called arimetric average. You could also mulitply the numbers and then take i to power of the reciprok number of factors... that would be the so-called geometric average. And so on. And often it makes more sense to use a median anyway.

[Blitz]

Originally posted by Blitz:
I can't believe you numbskulls have to argue about the definition of average. Any fourth grader knows that to find the average add em up and divide by the number of things.

O Wise One, maybe someday you'll have to learn Japanese and will face exactly that kind of problems when posting on Japanese forums.

Anyway, you're right. Technically I'm not a 4th grader, or 27th, or even 1st, since I never had the (mis?)fortune to follow courses in the US educational system.

If you must know I'm a product of Nishimachi International School, in Tokyo, Japan. I spent my first 6 years of grade school in the international school system and speak fluent Japanese. Sorry to bust your superiority bubble, but I never spent a minute of my life in the "US educational system".

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Blitz:
If you must know I'm a product of Nishimachi International School, in Tokyo, Japan. I spent my first 6 years of grade school in the international school system and speak fluent Japanese. Sorry to bust your superiority bubble, but I never spent a minute of my life in the "US educational system".

Did I write Japanese? Oh my bad, I meant Portuguese OFC!

So the point remains.