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How are handicaps determined for bowlers?

An average (or mean) may be affected by one very high or one very low number.

Is the average always the best way to describe the “center” of a set of data?

In many cases, the results from a small number of experiments will not provide a very accurate estimate of the probabilities involved.

 

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