> But in astronomy, nothing is normally distributed. (At least, nothing comes to mind.) Instead, everything is a power law. Power law fits to empirical data ar

> But in astronomy, nothing is normally distributed. (At least, nothing comes to mind.) Instead, everything is a power law. Power law fits to empirical data are heavily misused. http://cs.unm.edu/~aaron/blog/archives/2007/06/power_laws_and.htm http://cs.unm.edu/~aaron/blog/archives/2007/06/power_laws_an...