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What does that mean? The average is enough and you would actively avoid information about the distribution if you could get it?



No they can give me the distribution, I just don’t need to know what Jane Blow paid.

So I don’t need to know what Jane, or my boss or whomever paid for their F-150 and none of them need to know what I paid. But I don’t mind knowing the distribution so long as none of the data points can be tied to any particular person.


>so long as none of the data points can be tied to any particular person

Does that mean you are against salaries being published beside names, or you feel any possibility of identifying people should prevent a dataset being released?




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