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Joe Luzanski
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Thu, Aug 31 2006
Anticipation!

The weather forecasters are predicting a respectable amount of rain for this Labor Day weekend and with that rain we are expecting a huge find of mushrooms for The 2006 Gary Lincoff Mid-Atlantic Mushroom Foray. Dick and Glen have been as busy as mushroomers during morel season getting ready for the event. I know that we're still accepting volunteers for that day as many hands make for light work.

I've only been finding some fairy ring mushrooms in the yard. Those and the occasional horse mushroom and a Russula or two. My in-laws have a bunch of blue staining boletes under their chestnut trees. After the rain I'm hoping to find a couple of bushels of horse mushrooms. It's time to start accumulating mushrooms for Christmas Eve.

 


by Joe  Contact Me

Sat, Aug 05 2006
How Many Mushrooms Do You Know?

I got to wondering how many mushrooms our members know. Knowing about a half a dozen mushrooms will make you an expert in your neighbors eyes. I don't claim to be a math wizard but here's what I came up with.

How many mushrooms do you know?

This includes members who responded to the survey and knew at least 1 mushroom

Then I eleminated those members who know a lot of mushrooms

If you know about a half a dozen mushrooms your neighbors will consider you an expert

189

188

187

185

184

180

Members

30.7

22.9

20.9

18.4

17.4

15.6

Average (Mean)

10

10

10

10

10

10

Median

10

10

10

10

10

10

Mode

             

90.1

43.5

33.7

23.9

19.9

15.7

Standard Deviation

             

1000

400

250

200

100

80

Most

1

1

1

1

1

1

Least

             

The standard deviation is a measure of how widely values are dispersed from the average value (the mean).

             

The median is the number in the middle of a set of numbers; that is, half the numbers have values that are

greater than the median, and half have values that are less.

   
             

Mode returns the most frequently occurring, or repetitive, value in an array or range of data.

 


by Joe  Contact Me

Fri, Aug 04 2006
Hats

I just confirmed our order for hats.


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Posted at:Mon, Sep 04 2006 10:21:38 AM