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I think the OPs point is that it’s bounded below at a point not-distant from the mean, and hence you have a one-tailed and not two-tailed distribution. That non
by zmgsabst 2y ago
I think the OPs point is that it’s bounded below at a point not-distant from the mean, and hence you have a one-tailed and not two-tailed distribution. That non-trivially changes the distribution.
And then commented why: you have a finite amount you can do a task faster; but an infinite amount you can do it slower.
That is in contrast to heights or shoe sizes, which are (effectively) bounded on both sides while having the bounds distant from the mean.
- mrks_hy 2y agoThat is just being pedantic. In reality, there are no observable tasks that take infinite time. And the actual statistical process is probably unknowable anyway, we are very likely dealing with a sum of random variables, hence the Central Limit Theorem applies anyway.