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Build a Business, Not an Exit Strategy
So what you say with your example is that in a layered sample (say separate the population by heigh or muscle mass), the weighted mean is a better estimator than the arithmetic mean of a sample ?
It is not ignored by statistics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_mean
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It is not ignored by statistics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_mean