(Am I the only one who wasn’t familiar with geometric means and thought the explanation/equation was intimidating? (Edit/note: this no longer applies after the OP’s update))
Unless I missed it somewhere, I would definitely recommend explaining geometric vs. arithmetic mean in simple English terms early on. Not explaining mathematical equations in lay terms is a minor a pet peeve of mine; I feel that in this case it could have been explained better for non-mathematical audiences by simply saying “Whereas the arithmetic mean adds the values together and divides by the number of values, the geometric mean multiplies all the values and then takes the n-th root of the product (where n = number of values).”
You are right and I should be more mindful of this.
I have reformulated the main equations using only commonly known symbols, moved the equations that were not critical for the text to a footnote and added plain language explanations to the rest.
(I hope it is okay that I stole your explanation of the geometric mean!)
(Am I the only one who wasn’t familiar with geometric means and thought the explanation/equation was intimidating? (Edit/note: this no longer applies after the OP’s update))
Unless I missed it somewhere, I would definitely recommend explaining geometric vs. arithmetic mean in simple English terms early on. Not explaining mathematical equations in lay terms is a minor a pet peeve of mine; I feel that in this case it could have been explained better for non-mathematical audiences by simply saying “Whereas the arithmetic mean adds the values together and divides by the number of values, the geometric mean multiplies all the values and then takes the n-th root of the product (where n = number of values).”
You are right and I should be more mindful of this.
I have reformulated the main equations using only commonly known symbols, moved the equations that were not critical for the text to a footnote and added plain language explanations to the rest.
(I hope it is okay that I stole your explanation of the geometric mean!)
Those equations are definitely less intimidating / I could understand them without an issue. (And that’s totally fine, I hope it’s helpful)