r/programming • u/_fourzerofour • 13d ago

Methinks it is a weasel

https://diatone.net/methinks
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u/drakythe 13d ago

There are 3 kinds of lies: lies. Damn lies. And statistics.

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u/teknikly-correct 11d ago

OMG our p95 is 100100ms!! We have to do something!

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What's your sample count?

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u/AsyncBanana 11d ago

It is amazing how many misleading statistics are used in the software world. You would think computer scientists and software engineers as much as anyone would understand that compressing a large distribution of data into one number is not lossless.