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I 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.
by arcticbull 5y ago
I 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!