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Elithrion comments on Open thread, March 17-31, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Elithrion 18 March 2013 05:56:14PM *  1 point [-]

Regarding the note, in statistics you could call that a population parameter. While parameters that are used are normally things like "mean" or "standard deviation", the definition is broad enough that "the centre of mass of a collection of atoms" plausibly fits the category.