> Performance at most athleticism-based sports is light-tailed. For the 100m sprint, the current world record from Usain Bolt is 9.58 seconds, while “a non-elit

> Performance at most athleticism-based sports is light-tailed. For the 100m sprint, the current world record from Usain Bolt is 9.58 seconds, while “a non-elite athlete can run 100m in 13-14 seconds.” On the other hand, I'm guessing pay among athletes is heavy-tailed. Anyway, thought this was going to be a post on anomaly detection or something but turned out to be quite different.