FIGURE 4-
The Bimodal Ages of Women Named Violet
With a bimodal or multimodal distribution, neither the mean nor the median is representative of the data. The ages of girls and women named Violet form a bimodal distribution (Silver & McCann, 2014). If your name is Violet, you’re likely to be elderly or a child. One quarter of Violets were born before 1936, and another quarter have been born since 2010. In the intervening years, far fewer babies were named Violet each year, with almost none in the 1970s and 1980s. So, the median age for women named Violet is around 50, but there are almost no 50- r-
The Bimodal Ages of Women Named Violet
With a bimodal or multimodal distribution, neither the mean nor the median is representative of the data. The ages of girls and women named Violet form a bimodal distribution (Silver & McCann, 2014). If your name is Violet, you’re likely to be elderly or a child. One quarter of Violets were born before 1936, and another quarter have been born since 2010. In the intervening years, far fewer babies were named Violet each year, with almost none in the 1970s and 1980s. So, the median age for women named Violet is around 50, but there are almost no 5