When Complex multi-dimensional data and analysis create users that cannot exist

Tony Fish
2 min readJun 26, 2020

It is all about averages.

If you have a single dimension data set, say height, with a large data set, it is probable that one user will be the average of the entire set.

In a two-dimensional data set, height and weight, it is probable that one user may have these two characters as the average of the entire set.

In a three-dimensional data set, inside leg measurement, height and weight, it is tending toward impossible that one user may have the…

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