Hi Steve Today's XKCD is on 'Selection Bias' and it is set in a statistics conference: https://xkcd.com/2618/
According to its PEP the statistics module provides "common statistics functions such as mean, median, variance and standard deviation". You ask "if you are a user of statistics, how important to you is the ability to **mix** numeric types, in the same data set". Asking your question here introduces a selection bias. To compensate for this, I suggest you also ask a similar question elsewhere, such as comp.lang.python and at some forum for Python in education. Do look at https://xkcd.com/2618/, it makes the point quite nicely. -- Jonathan
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