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That’s exactly the right take and the article proves it: Statisticians love averages so everywhere that could be sampled as a normal distribution will be prese
by AndrewKemendo 8mo ago
That’s exactly the right take and the article proves it:
Statisticians love averages so everywhere that could be sampled as a normal distribution will be presented as one
The median is actually more descriptive and power law is equally as pervasive if not more
- fsckboy 8mo agocombining repeated samples of any distribution* (any population density fuction including power law distributions) will converge to the normal distribution, that's why it appears everywhere. * excluding bizarre degenerates like constants or impulse functions
- abetusk 8mo agoNo, that's not correct. Sums of power law distributions can converge to power low tailed distributions, not normal distributions.
- AndrewKemendo 8mo agoNo use arguing with them they don’t have enough mathematical understanding to understand what they’re saying