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I was thinking about this and how you might get a lognormal from normals. Peer comments I think have good suggestions. The thing is a while back I took a look
by leto_ii 3y ago
I was thinking about this and how you might get a lognormal from normals. Peer comments I think have good suggestions.
The thing is a while back I took a look at the times achieved by competitive athletes at the 100m dash (from worldathletics.org), and they looked normally distributed. Intuitively that made sense to me - many other human attributes are normally distributed, so why not this?
- eszed 3y agoJust a guess: all of those competitive athletes are in the far, far upper-right quadrant of the performance graph, where the curve flattens out. Their distribution will approximate to a normal curve, whereas zooming out to include everyone reveals a gaussian distribution.