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Analyze User Comment Distribution and Sampling Effects

Last updated: Mar 29, 2026

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This question evaluates understanding of right‑skewed distributions, measures of central tendency and percentiles, and the effects of aggregation and sampling on distributional shape and spread.

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Analyze User Comment Distribution and Sampling Effects

Company: Meta

Role: Data Scientist

Category: Statistics & Math

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Onsite

##### Scenario Analyzing distribution of user comment counts and the effect of sampling. ##### Question Sketch the distribution of individual users’ daily comment counts when it is right-skewed and mark mean, median, and 95th percentile positions. After randomly sampling many user groups and computing each group’s average comments, describe the resulting distribution and how the mean, median, and 95th percentile change. ##### Hints Invoke Central Limit Theorem; sample means trend toward normal, mean stays constant, higher percentiles shrink, median approaches mean.

Quick Answer: This question evaluates understanding of right‑skewed distributions, measures of central tendency and percentiles, and the effects of aggregation and sampling on distributional shape and spread.

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Scenario

You are analyzing daily comment counts per user. The per-user distribution of counts is right-skewed (many zeros/low counts and a long right tail).

Tasks

  1. Sketch and label the distribution of individual users' daily comment counts when it is right-skewed. Mark the locations of the mean, median, and the 95th percentile (p95).
  2. Now repeatedly take many random user groups of equal size n (users per group) and compute each group's average daily comments. Describe the distribution of these group averages. How do the mean, median, and 95th percentile of this sampling distribution compare to those of the original per-user distribution?

Hint: Invoke the Central Limit Theorem. Sample means trend toward normal; the mean stays constant; the median approaches the mean; higher percentiles shrink as n grows.

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