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It doesn’t— Most tick bites take 36-48 hours before you get infected (bell hump). But sometimes you get infected quickly (left tail) and sometimes it takes lon
by thehappypm 3y ago
It doesn’t—
Most tick bites take 36-48 hours before you get infected (bell hump). But sometimes you get infected quickly (left tail) and sometimes it takes longer (right tail).
- happyopossum 3y agoThat'd be an s-curve, as it's always going up - a bell curve goes up then down.
- macintux 3y agoI suppose it depends on whether you’re charting the cumulative or the “instant” odds.
- thehappypm 3y agoThey’re the same thing; the bell curve is probability of being infected at time X specifically, and the S curve is the cumulative sum, that is, the probability you’ll have been infected by day X