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No, the bell curve for height does not suggest a 30ft human would ever occur. That would be somewhere around 90+ standard deviations out--that's so wildly impr
by bsder 5y ago
No, the bell curve for height does not suggest a 30ft human would ever occur. That would be somewhere around 90+ standard deviations out--that's so wildly improbable as to be effectively 0. A "mere" 7 standard deviations is effectively 1 in a billion. And that's somewhere around a 7 1/2 foot tall human (who we do see occasionally).
"Standard deviation of lifespan" (a somewhat erroneous idea since we're not actually on a bell curve) is somewhere around 10 years. 150 years old is 7 standard deviations--improbable but not impossible. If we're following a bell curve, 1 in a billion people should be 140 years+ and 1 in 10,000 should be 120 years+.
The fact that we don't see these probabilities is extremely strong evidence we're not on a bell curve. And not being on a bell curve immediately throws out huge chunks of statistical "rules".