| ▲ | jghn 5 days ago | |
I am not intending this as a backhanded way of suggesting your experience is invalid. I get that it's quite possible in some areas. However, I think the point of the GP is that the number of people who say this is their typical experience is going to be larger than the number of people for whom it actually is their typical experience. By that I mean: your story is quite common in discussions like this, both online and offline. Yet, if the mean distance is 8 miles, and we know it's going to be skewed high due to the 0 bound, it can't be all that common. To be honest, I'd be curious to see the median here. | ||
| ▲ | spiffytech 5 days ago | parent [-] | |
That's fair. FWIW my city lists the mean commute time as 23.6 minutes, p90 26.6. Travel in my area is dominated by freeway arteries, so 15-ish miles each way is a fair estimate for the mean. | ||