Usually I don ' t laugh hysterically at stuff on rTheDonald but this one got me . <| sep |> Well that was a pointless interview . Thanks Gene ! I love you . I want to hear from Eberle ' s house sitter next time . <| sep |> They ' re all mods over at ryams as well . <| sep |> ech , still havnt been given a good explaination of why i shouldnt be pissed about losing Walker . <| sep |> I thought so too at first , but she seemed to know an awful lot about Alba ' s sister . Old family stories and whatnot . So I think she is related , but there is def something shady about her . <| sep |> If you are using a Gaussian distribution , yes . no . Always . The definition of the expected value is literally the weighted mean of any probability distribution . If you were thinking of it being a median you probably were , then that doesn ' t even hold for all Gaussians , they aren ' t necessarily symmetrical . But a mean is not a median . you can estimate the individual likelihoods for all possible values of the mean given the dataThat ' s word salad . The mean of a statistical distribution is a fixed quantity . Sumfxpx . It already contains the individual likelihoods of each data element . The only thing telling you how likely the mean is is the variance . Before you criticize awardwinning statisticians , learn your bloody basics .