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That’s not what the central limit theorem says, and it’s not and cannot be true in practice.
by leephillips 5y ago
That’s not what the central limit theorem says, and it’s not and cannot be true in practice.
- arcticbull 5y agoI was taking humans political opinions as the sum of a sum of independent random variables :) still may have been a bit of flourish, I suppose.
- leephillips 5y agoSorry, still doesn’t mean that the quantity that you’re averaging (position on the left-right political spectrum?) will be normally distributed. In fact, it almost certainly won’t be. But it’s a common error.
- arcticbull 5y agoWell, thank you for letting me know!