I was watching this compilated YouTube video about work ethic, that some scientists (including Feynman) were speaking. There was this guy saying something along, “I think to have great outcomes, you actually do need to work at like three standard deviation above the mean ”
I only remember basic statistics and simple calculations of mean and standard deviation.
Mean is an average of the dataset.
Standard Deviation is the representation of how close or far are the Datasets from mean.
But I still cannot figure out what he meant.
Note: excuse my English.
In: Mathematics
Each standard deviation moves you a certain amount away from the mean. One standard deviation above means about 68% of the sample is lower than that value. Two SD means about 95% are below that value. Three SD means about 99.7% are below that value.
This person was saying that you must do work better than 99.7% of other work in that field in order for it to be truly *great* work.
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