On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 07:25:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Average right now is the average depth of all the dives - not the average > > of all the deepest depths. From a mathematical point of view this makes > > perfect sense. But it is extremely unintuitive - especially when the > > average frequently is less than the minimum :-/ > > I suspect we should just start getting rid of the whole "average" > depth - even within a single dive. I don't think people care. > > The main reason to ever care about the average depth is likely for the > single-tank SAC rate calculation, but we do that in a much more > generic way, so never mind. It's all a historical mistake to even > bring it up. > > So I'd argue for getting rid of the current average depth, and instead > talk about "mean max depth". And even then, we might go for median > rather than mean. I suspect median max depth is a more valuable and > interesting value than the mean max depth.
I decided to just remove the average. This really doesn't provide any interesting information, whichever semantic we pick. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
